Research Catalog

Title

Consumed in the city : observing tuberculosis at century's end / Paul Draus.

Author

Draus, Paul Joseph.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 290 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Tuberculosis > New York (State) > New York > Epidemiology
• Tuberculosis > Illinois > Chicago > Epidemiology
• Public health > New York (State) > New York
• Public health > Illinois > Chicago
• Urban health
• Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > psychology
• Communicable Disease Control
• Social Problems > psychology
• Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > epidemiology
• Urban Health
• Urban health
• Public health
• Tuberculosis > Epidemiology
• Stadt
• Tuberkulose
• Medizinsoziologie
• Gesundheitsförderung
• Chicago > epidemiology
• Illinois > Chicago
• New York (State) > New York
• USA

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives.
• Récits personnels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index.

Contents

Prologue: A day in the life, Chicago, 1998 -- Introduction: TB and sociology -- Bugs in the Big Apple; chasing TB in NYC -- Slow motion disaster: postindustrial poverty and the return of TB -- The public hospital battles on the TB frontier -- Cavities of contagion: networks and nodes of TB in Chicago -- Welcome to the West Side: hanging out in TB alley -- Hard case histories: narratives of tuberculosis, homelessness, and addiction -- Difficult negotiations: coercion, care, and compliance in TB therapy -- Sheep's clothing: lessons learned from TB in the field -- Conclusion: Implications of a marginal epidemic -- Epilogue; Back to the corner, Chicago, 2002 -- Notes.

ISBN

• 1592132480
• 9781592132485
• 1592132499
• 9781592132492

LCCN

2003063402

OCLC

• ocm53287915
• 53287915
• SCSB-1342691

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library