Global public health
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Global public health · Mar 2018
'Exotic no more': Tuberculosis, public debt and global health in Berlin.
Geographical divisions between North and South are coming increasingly undone in the field of global health. Settings in the global North, such as Berlin, are becoming linked up to those in the global South in manifold ways. ⋯ Such processes of indebtedness and privatisation render the strong public health infrastructures that characterise the global North increasingly fragile, and are comparable to the structural adjustment policies that have been imposed upon countries in the global South. I argue that economic processes of austerity in Berlin complement the meaning of TB as an immigrants' disease, while older meanings of TB as a disease of poverty resurface.