Background Tuberculosis (TB) stigma remains a barrier to early diagnosis and treatment
completion. Increased understanding of stigma is necessary for improved interventions to …

There is an ever-present need to challenge, create, and expand upon qualitative research
approaches in the applied and practice disciplines to avoid repeating mistakes of the past …

Celebration, frustration, contestation and imagination all manifest themselves when
examining the evolution of the field of Medical and Health Humanities (MHH) at the …

Abstract Background The South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative is based in
Worcester where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic, and incidence rates are amongst the highest …

This dissertation may be read on several different levels. At its most accessible, it is a
detailed ethnographic description of how 'women in mining'negotiate the daily terrain of …

Despite a steady global decline in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB), progress towards
health targets has been slow and a crisis of drug-resistant strains of TB continues unabated …

Cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration, however it may be
labelled, plays a pivotal role in tuberculosis (TB) research. Simandan's emotive commentary …

Tuberculosis Bacilli (TB) is a global scourge that affects poor people and regions. Drawing
on Farmer's (2003) pathologies of power, and a case study approach, we examine the …

Understanding Tuberculosis and its control; Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches
Page 1 1 INTRODUCTION Persistent pathogen Helen Macdonald, Paul H. Mason and Ian …

Despite substantial expenditure by national tuberculosis (TB) programmes, significant efforts
by advocacy groups, and heavy investment in clinical and biomedical research, TB remains …