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Disease, class and social change : tuberculosis in Folkestone and Sandgate, 1880-1930 / by Marc Arnold.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Marc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tuberculosis--England--Folkestone--History.
- Tuberculosis.
- Tuberculosis--England--Sandgate--History.
- Sanatoriums--History.
- Sanatoriums.
- Folkestone (England).
- Sandgate (England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This previously unexamined history of open-air treatment in English coastal resorts demonstrates how contrasting meanings were assigned to tuberculosis along lines of class. It assesses the shifting inter-relation of medical, political and social forces in determining responses to this devastating disease, and analyses the relationship between scientific ideas, in particular social evolution and germ theory, and attitudes to poverty and chronic disease. In Folkestone and Sandgate these confl...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Representations of tuberculosis
- pt. II. Public health and private interests
- pt. III. Early sanatorium treatment.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographic records (p. [282]-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-4303-2
- OCLC:
- 821179774
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