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Consumed in the City: Observing Tuberculosis at Century’s End

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As a public health field worker assigned to keep an eye on tuberculosis in New York and Chicago in the 1990s, Paul Draus encountered the horrible effects of tuberculosis resurgence in urban areas, and the intersections of disease, blight, and poverty. Consumed in the City grows out of his experiences and offers a persuasive case for thinking about – and treating – tuberculosis as an inseparable component of the scourges of poverty, homelessness, AIDS, and drug abuse. It is unattainable, Draus argues, to treat and get rid of tuberculosis without also treating the social ills that underlie the new epidemic. then places the resurgence of tuberculosis into historical and sociological perspective. He vividly describes his experiences in hospital rooms, clinics, jails, housing projects, urban streets, and other social settings where tuberculosis is continuously encountered and treated. The use of case studies, he demonstrates how social problems impact the success or failure of actual remedy. In any case, Draus suggests how a reformed public health agenda could lend a hand institute the changes required to defeat a deadly new epidemic. At once a personal account and a concrete plan for rethinking the role of public health, Consumed in the City marks a significant intervention in the way we take into consideration the entangled crises of urban dislocation, poverty, and disease.

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