《White Plague, Black Labor》是University of California Press出版的圖書，作者是Randall M. Packard
基本介紹
- 中文名：White Plague, Black Labor
- 作者：Randall M. Packard
- 出版社：University of California Press
- 出版時間：1989年11月6日
- 頁數：416 頁
- 定價：33.95 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780520065758
內容簡介
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 S...(展開全部) 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. These forces have generated a growing backlog of disease among black workers and their families and at the same time have prevented the development of effective public health measures for controlling it. Packard's rich and nuanced analysis is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on South Africa's social history as well as to the history of medicine and the political economy of health.
