White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa

by Randall M. Packard

Book Overview

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 the background of the changing political and economic forces that have shaped South African society from the end of the nineteenth century to the present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065751
• ISBN13: 9780520065758
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 9.1"