The Return of the White Plague
Subtitle: Global Poverty and the 'New' Tuberculosis
Contributors: Matthew Gandy (Editor); Alimuddin Zumla (Editor)
Publisher: Verso
Published: August 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781859846698
Subjects: Anthropology; Infectious & contagious diseases; Poverty; Medical; Politics / Current Events; Tuberculosis; Forensic Medicine; General; Medical policy
First sentence: The resurgence of disease is one of the most telling indictments of the failure of global political and economic institutions to improve the lives of ordinary people.