Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia
"Koch shows that the story of tuberculosis in Georgia today is one of structured uncertainties and competing logics of expertise amid the implementation of market-based health service, all of which are embedded in a vibrant culture of medicine that significantly predates the Soviet period."--Sarah D. Phillips, author ofWomen's Social Activism in the New Ukraine"This book offers important insights about the need to identify specific sociocultural and political contours of both epidemics and management strategies, and to explore where things might be improved upon in this context. In post-Soviet Georgia, we are witness to the successes and failures of tuberculosis treatment protocols as the political and economic demands of a globalized laboratory meet up awkwardly with local clinical conditions and patient populations in ways that make standardized protocols ultimately fail."--Vincanne Adams, University of California, San Francisco, author ofDoctors for Democracy