Re: "Now instead we have human rights"

[Michael Perelman]

I just finished reading

Garrett, Laurie. 2000. Betrayal of Trust (NY: Hyperion).

She gives an excellent critique of Russian health.  The book is devoted to the
history of the rise and fall of public health.  A central thesis is that
capitalism is putting excessive attention to the delivery of private health
relative to public health, which is in steep decline throughout the world.



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Michael Perelman
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"Now instead we have human rights"

[Louis Proyect]

no longer contagious. The SanEp tactics were brutal - people
were often taken from their families and hometowns for months to years -
but they were effective.

"Now, instead, we have human rights," said Alla Loseva, the Voronezh
tuberculosis hospital's deputy chief doctor, rolling her eyes. SanEp is but
a poorly funded shell of its former self. Its job has fallen instead to
doctors like Ms. Loseva, struggling to contain the epidemic with minuscule
budgets and skeletal staffs.

A colleague, Dr. Galina Chervanova, said that when she arrived at the
hospital in 1987, "there was even talk of eliminating TB completely."

"Now we are not even close to that anymore," added Dr. Chervanova, the
hospital's deputy chief superintendent. "The number of sick people has
risen, and we are seeing many, many difficult, chronic cases."

Full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/05/science/05INFE.html


Louis Proyect
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