Tuberculosis then and now : perspectives on the history of an infectious disease / edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condrau, Flurin, Author.

Contributor:

Condrau, Flurin.

Worboys, Michael, 1948-

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 35.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--History.

Tuberculosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Tuberculosis Then and Now leading scholars and new researchers in the field reflect on the changing medical, social, and cultural understanding of the disease and engage in a wider debate about the role of narrative in the social history of medicine and how it informs current debates and issues surrounding the treatment of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Through a case study of the history of tuberculosis and its treatment, this collection examines medicine and health care from the perspectives of class, race, and gender, providing a challenging and refreshing addition to the field of bacteria-centred accounts of the history of medicine.

Contents:

1. Tuberculosis and Its Histories: Then and Now / Linda Bryder, Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys

2. Lay Disease Narratives, Tuberculosis, and Health Education Films / Tim Boon

3. Targeting Patient Zero / David S. Barnes

4. Beyond the Total Institution: Towards a Reinterpretation of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium / Flurin Condrau

5. Great White Plague Turns Alien: Tuberculosis and Immigration in Australia, 1901-2001 / Alison Bashford

6. Importation, Deprivation, and Susceptibility: Tuberculosis Narratives in Postwar Britain / John Welshman

7. Before McKeown: Explaining the Decline of Tuberculosis in Britain, 1880-1930 / Michael Worboys

8. "The right not to suffer consumption": Health, Welfare Charity, and the Working Class in Spain during the Restoration Period / Jorge Molero-Mesa

9. Lobbying and Resistance with regard to Policy on Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain, 1900-1939: An Inside/Outside Model / Peter J. Atkins

10. At Home in the Colonies: the WHO-MRC Trials at the Madras Chemotherapy Centre in the 1950's and 1960's / Helen Valier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86750-4

9786612867507

0-7735-7704-1

OCLC:

923234803