Building resistance : children, tuberculosis, and the Toronto sanatorium / Stacie Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Stacie (Stacie D. A.), author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanatoriums.

History.

Tuberculosis--Treatment.

Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis in children.

Ontario--Toronto.

Ontario.

Tuberculosis in children--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.

Tuberculosis--Treatment--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.

Sanatoriums--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.

Child, Hospitalized--history.

Hospitals, Chronic Disease--history.

Tuberculosis--history.

History, 20th Century.

Medical Subjects:

Ontario.

Child, Hospitalized--history.

Hospitals, Chronic Disease--history.

Tuberculosis--history.

History, 20th Century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In 1882, Robert Koch determined that tuberculosis was an infectious disease caused by a bacterium. In Canada, tuberculosis was a widespread, endemic disease and many children were infected in their youth, often within their family homes. Ongoing concerns led to the rise of modern, scientific hospitals specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis, including the Toronto sanatorium which opened in 1904 on the outskirts of the city. Lacking antibiotic treatments until the 1940s, the early sanatorium era was defined by the principles of resistance building, recognizing that the body itself possessed a potential to overcome tuberculosis through rest, nutrition, and fresh air. Over time, various surgeries were added to the medical repertoire, all intended to assist the body in building resistance. Belief in modern medicine positioned the Toronto sanatorium as a place of perseverance and hope. Situated in the era before streptomycin, Building Resistance explores children's diverse experiences with tuberculosis infection, disease, hospitalization, and treatment. Grounded in a descriptively rich and thick qualitative case study methodology, and based on archival research, the book examines children's experiences at the Toronto sanatorium between 1909 and 1950. In Building Resistance Stacie Burke questions how tuberculosis infection and disease impacted on the bodies, families, and lives of children. The tuberculosis experience is approached holistically, as a biosocial construct, focusing not only with the biologies of bodies and tuberculosis bacteria, but also the nature of the social and medical worlds in which those bodies and bacteria were embedded."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Building bodies of resistance

The Toronto sanatorium : the context

Guarded hopes and difficult truths : children, families, and the sanatorium

Tuberculosis and the body : biology, beliefs, and experience

Blood and oxygen : building bodies of resistance

From collapse to cure : the modern therapeutics

Children and the Sanatorium : conduct sheets and report cards

Tuberculosis support and philanthropy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-550) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Burke, Stacie, 1970-, author. Building resistance.

ISBN:

9780773553309

0773553304

9780773553316

0773553312

OCLC:

1038431179