Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 19 No. 51 White Plague, Black Labour: TB in SA (Packard)

Abstract of Review

Title:	White Plague, Black Labour: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa by Randall M Packard
Reviewer:	Karen Jochelson
Location:	Vol.19 No.51 (July 1991), pp120-123

The history of health and medicine in South Africa is under-researched and only since the late 1970s have historians begun to investigate the alarming impact of industrialisation and proletarianisation on the health profile of white and black South Africans. Packard's analysis of the history of tuberculosis (TB) transmission patterns, medical intervention, and explanations of African susceptibility is a praiseworthy addition to South African and medical history.

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