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

Packard, Randall M., 1945-

Year: c1989.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

List of Tables and Graphs

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction: Industrialization and the Political Economy of Tuberculosis

1. Preindustrial South Africa: A Virgin Soil for Tuberculosis?

2. Urban Growth, "Consumption," and the "Dressed Native," 1870-1914

3. Black Mineworkers and the Production of Tuberculosis, 1870-1914

4. Migrant Labor and the Rural Expansion of Tuberculosis, 1870-1938

5. Slumyards and the Rising Tide of Tuberculosis, 1914-1938

6. Labor Supplies and Tuberculosis on the Witwatersrand 1913-1938

7. Segregation and Racial Susceptibility: The Ideological Foundations of Tuberculosis Control, 1913-1938

8. Industrial Expansion, Squatters, and the Second Tuberculosis Epidemic, 1938-1948

9. Tuberculosis and Apartheid: The Great Disappearing Act, 1948-1980

Epilogue: The Present and Future of Tuberculosis in South Africa

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Title:

White plague, black labor : tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa Randall M. Packard.

Author:

Packard, Randall M., 1945-

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White plague, black labor : tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa Randall M. Packard.
Packard, Randall M., 1945-
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1989.

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• Tuberculosis -- South Africa -- History

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