In the Journals – Prisons and Pandemics
Prisoners’ Round by Vincent Van Gogh via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! My name is Ally, I am a graduate student …
Messianic Medicine: Treating Disease in the Time that is Left by Janina Kehr
In “The Time that Is Left”, Giorgio Agamben sketches the problem of messianic time. He writes that the messianic is “not the …
Awakenings by Bharat Jayram Venkat
Tuberculosis is curable. Figure 1: Propaganda materials rehearsing the curability of tuberculosis are produced by a variety of institutional actors across India. …
Book Forum — Christian McMillen’s “Discovering Tuberculosis” by Todd Meyers
Christian McMillen’s Discovering Tuberculosis is many things, but mostly it is an account of failure. The book is a story of …
STI, HIV, AIDS, TB, conferences of this month
The Joint World STI & HIV & ASHM Congress starts on Sunday 13 September 2015 at the Brisbance Convention Centre! That’s today (in local time)!!! It …
Tuberculosis: more anthropologists wanted
Nhat preparing a sample to be tested in the GeneXpert system If tuberculosis (TB) is so often described as the quintessential social …
Tuberculosis in Prisons
Last year I wrote a blog post for the TB CRE covering a story about Ravindra Patil who died of tuberculosis …