Kekuasaan: Determinan Sosial dan Kebudayaan Penyakit Tuberkulosis Paru di Cinangka Serang Banten

The backgrounds of this research are (1) the reality of lung tuberculosis case in Indonesia has never been overcome since colonial governance era until now, and (2) biomedical experts often disregard the results of medical anthropology research by the social and culture approach on lung tuberculosis. Thus, I try to get out of medical anthropological research themes (medical ecology, political economic, and ritual) as usual, and offer “power” is a new theme in medical anthropological research on lung tuberculosis. The research findings are; (1) Cinangka Serang Banten societi’s knowledge on lung tuberculosis is constructed by staff of public health center (puskesmas), personalistic and naturalistic healers, (2) the social process as power implementation can stimulate, push, or even facilitate the biological process of lung tuberculosis, (3) the used of power issue in medical anthropology perspective for understanding disease is significant as one of medical anthropology theme on lung tuberculosis. These research findings effects are; (1) stimulates the dynamics of theory and method in medical anthropology; (1) reconstruct the way of thought in study of disease; (3) gives conceptual contribution in tackling and prevention of lung tuberculosis disease.