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Arequipa Sanatorium : life in California's lung resort for women / Lynn Downey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downey, Lynn, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals--California.
- Hospitals.
- Tuberculosis--California.
- Tuberculosis.
- Arequipa Sanatorium.
- Hospitals, Chronic Disease--history.
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary--history.
- Women--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- California.
- Tuberculosis--Research.
- Women.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals, Chronic Disease--history.
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary--history.
- Women--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- California.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- The maverick
- The Drs. Brown
- Consumed
- Progressives
- Here, rest
- Art as a tonic
- Tile and trouble
- Life in a lung resort
- To her the girls could bring their troubles
- Pleasant diversions, unpleasant treatments
- Your greatest wish will be granted
- A world within a world
- Magic bullets
- Dancing back to bed
- Afterlives
- Time travel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806163956
- 080616395X
- OCLC:
- 1082559599
- Publisher Number:
- 40029464963
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