ABSTRACT
This chapter engages ethnographically with the ways TB control is practiced and problematized in France. TB control is part of a larger state apparatus, where republican dilemmas and paradoxes, characteristic of French politics, as well as pragmatic arrangements, characteristic of public health, occur: differing treatments despite an ideal of equality; and the conditioning of preventive actions by an inegalitarian social and political system with conflicting priorities of inclusion and exclusion. With this chapter, I contribute to understanding the social, political and medical stakes and dilemmas of tuberculosis control in a low-burden country in which tuberculosis exists primarily as an immigrant’s disease.
