Book ID: CBB001551558

Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia (2013)

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Koch, Erin (Author)


Vanderbilt University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xiv + 231 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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 Free Market Tuberculosis dramatically 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. Anthropologist Erin Koch 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--Koch'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

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Authors & Contributors
M. Cristina Amoretti
Hella von Unger
Pezzoni, Barbara
Olayiwola Akerele
Penelope Scott
Gorini, Ilaria
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Health care
Disease and diseases
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
Valencia (Spain)
Spain
Russia
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
European Association against Poliomyelitis
World Bank
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