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Multiple tuberculosis: a praxiography at the Instituto Clemente Ferreira, in São Paulo (SP), Brazil

This article proposes to present how tuberculosis is enacted at Clemente Ferreira Institute, a public health institution in São Paulo, Brazil, that is the primary healthcare city reference for most serious TB cases. By admitting that the disease is multiple, and that it is brought into existence through the practice of a number of different agents, we decided to follow up both patients and health professionals in action in order to identify versions of tuberculosis that acted at the institution’s limits. In this article, it has been possible both to reveal different versions of a single illness and also to observe how these different versions distribute and coordinate themselves. As such, they not only configure tuberculosis itself; they also determine how points of conflict occasionally occur through the encounter of various forms of disease production.

Tuberculosis; Multiple realities; Praxiography


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