Sharecropper's Tuberculosis: Pathologies of Power in a Fatal Outbreak.

Med Anthropol

b Department of Geography , The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa , Alabama , USA.

Published: January 2019

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 sociostructural landscape of a fatal outbreak of Sharecropper's TB among African Americans in rural Alabama. In a mixed-method qualitative approach involving oral history, surveys, interviews and documentary analysis, we identified three pathologies that contribute to TB susceptibility: corporate power, land wealth, and structural racism. While medicine can cure non-resistant forms of TB, control of future outbreaks will depend upon a social "cure" such as addressing structural inequality and building community trust in the health system.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1417282DOI Listing

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