The Social, Political, and Public Health Development of Tuberculosis

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published 05/06/2008

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Tuberculosis has borne an invasive and impressionable mark on public health history. Its presence has influenced the development of medical practice and public health responsibilities, and its impact is still very much felt to this day. Yet the existence of tuberculosis has not been immune to social and political mechanisms. Illness is as dependent on human experience as it is on impersonal pathology (Ott 1). Therefore, as medical understandings of tuberculosis shift, so do the cultural and political interpretations of its influence. However, these conceptions do not necessarily change in complementary directions or relationships, so that social and political perceptions of tuberculosis return to affect its pathogenicity and management. The historical transitions of tuberculosis, from its early influence in the United States to its evolution into multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, are mitigated by social and political response, all of which parallel shifts in public health ideologies from tuberculosis’s parochial perspective to its globalized interpretation realized today.

Tuberculosis originally manifested itself as consumption, a disease that carried an interestingly positive diagnosis
The concept of the sanatoria meshed well with the perception of consumption
The medical discoveries that pioneered advances in tuberculosis treatment
The advances in medical treatment, compounded with the evolution of social perceptions of tuberculosis
Since the end of World War II, the panacea of tuberculosis antibiotics had strengthened the individual commitment
The reality of tuberculosis disinterest
Public health and tuberculosis control facing the effects of increasing globalization
The role of politics in tuberculosis control has also undergone a significant change in the twentieth century
The social marketing of tuberculosis
As it stands today, two million die from tuberculosis each year