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Rebuilding the Public Health Infrastructure: The Challenge of Tuberculosis Control in New York City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Margaret A. Hamburg
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Nowhere in this nation is the return of tuberculosis more visible or more pronounced than in New York City. Fueled by poverty, homelessness and AIDS, tuberculosis has again reached epidemic proportions. New York City is at the forefront of the battle against this advancing disease. For this reason, and because the dynamics at work in New York City are a microcosm of those same forces at work in the larger society, what transpires here often foreshadows the direction that other urban centers will take. It is in this context that our New York experience provides a valuable framework for learning and for action.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 3-4 , Fall Winter 1993 , pp. 352 - 359
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1993

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This article is adapted from “Rebuilding the Public Health Infrastructure: The Challenge of Tuberculosis Control in New York City” presented by Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg at the American Society of Law and Medicine conference The Dual Epidemics of Tuberculosis and AIDS: Health Care Policy, Professional Practice, Law and Ethics, New York City, New York, December 4-5, 1992.Google Scholar
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