At the Limits of Cure
(Part of the Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Series)
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Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Bharat Jayram...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1478014725
ISBN13:9781478014720
Release Date:November 2021
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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