White plague, black labor : tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa /

Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against...

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Author / Creator: Packard, Randall M., 1945-
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989.
Series:Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
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