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Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study
Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27459 Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study Neocosmos, Michael sara.compion@gmail.com Compion, Sara Ruth Development Hegemonic ideology Medical sociology Discourse Neo-liberalism Public health Citizenship State welfare South africa Tuberculosis UCTD Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2008. This study examines tuberculosis discourse in order to understand the ideological factors surrounding the disease. It reveals that a dominant focus on biomedical issues and HIV/AIDS has undermined existing perceptions of the social causes of tuberculosis disease. The effect is an individualising of tuberculosis and its removal from a social context. This together with a hegemonic neo-liberal paradigm of development and state spending dictates that the biomedical reductionist treatment for certain diseases – like tuberculosis – is most “cost-effective” and thus is advocated for disease control. Consequently, the state is required to merely provide health-care in a manner that ignores the social context of disease. The responsibility for the outcome of health care (i.e. health) is therefore deferred to the individual. The unintended consequence is that as private organisations (both for- and not-for-profit) take up the state’s responsibility, citizens become disempowered by their limited ability to hold the state accountable, or to engage in meaningful ways that bring about structural change. As such, an environment that further disenfranchises the poor and defeats the purposes of health care in general is perpetuated and diseases like tuberculosis continue their deadly campaign. Sociology unrestricted 2013-09-07T11:33:55Z 2008-09-10 2013-09-07T11:33:55Z 2008-04-17 2008-09-10 2008-08-22 Dissertation a 2007 E1048/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27459 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08222008-110053/ © University of Pretoria 2007 E1048/ application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Development Hegemonic ideology Medical sociology Discourse Neo-liberalism Public health Citizenship State welfare South africa Tuberculosis UCTD Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study |
| title | Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study |
| title_full | Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study |
| title_fullStr | Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study |
| title_short | Tuberculosis discourse in South Africa : a case study |
| title_sort | tuberculosis discourse in south africa a case study |
| topic | Development Hegemonic ideology Medical sociology Discourse Neo-liberalism Public health Citizenship State welfare South africa Tuberculosis UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27459 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08222008-110053/ |