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Author Koch, Erin, author.

Title Free market tuberculosis : managing epidemics in post-Soviet Georgia / Erin Koch
Published Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2013
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : illustrations
Contents The hand of Medea : Georgian medicine in historical consciousness -- Medicines on the market -- Rendering tuberculosis : managing microbes and everyday laboratory work -- Free market tuberculosis incarcerated
Summary The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts in post-Soviet nations - and globally - would treat the disease. As this book demonstrates, market reforms and standardized treatment programs have both influenced and undermined the management of tuberculosis care in the now-independent country of Georgia. The alarming rate of tuberculosis infection in this nation at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Asia cannot be disputed, and yet solutions to attacking the disease are very much debated. Here, an anthropologist explores the intersection of the nation's extensive medical history, the effects of Soviet control, and the highly standardized - yet poorly regulated - treatments promoted by the World Health Organization. Although statistics and reports tell one story - a tale of success in Georgia - the author's ethnographic approach reveals all facets of this cautionary tale of a monolithic approach to medicine. This book is the 2011 recipient of the annual Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine. -- Description provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Tuberculosis -- Georgia (Republic) -- Epidemiology
Tuberculosis -- Treatment -- Georgia (Republic)
Tuberculosis -- Georgia (Republic) -- ethnology
Tuberculosis -- Georgia (Republic) -- Prevention
Political science -- Georgia (Republic)
Ethnology.
Politics, Practical.
Tuberculosis -- ethnology
Tuberculosis -- prevention & control
Anthropology, Cultural
Communicable Disease Control -- methods
Directly Observed Therapy -- methods
Politics
politics.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
Politics, Practical
Ethnology
Tuberculosis -- Prevention
Political science
Tuberculosis -- Epidemiology
Tuberculosis -- Treatment
Tuberkulosebekämpfung
SUBJECT Georgia (Republic) https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005846
Subject Georgia (Republic)
Georgien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826518941
082651894X
1283948966
9781283948968