Fevered Lives : Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870 /

Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor, daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow, and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection. Now Katherine O...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ott, Katherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Edición:Reprint 2014
Temas:
Geschichte 1870-1996.
Medizin, Gesundheit.
Tuberculose.
Tuberculosis.
Tuberkulose.
MEDICAL / General.
MEDICAL / History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Tuberculosis > United States > History.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Thinking about Disease
  • 1. Sickbed and Symptoms in the 1870s and 1880s
  • 2. The Ecology of the Chest
  • 3. Into the Germ Zone
  • 4. Laboring to Get Well
  • 5. Goods for the Medical Marketplace and Invalid Trade
  • 6. Race-ing Illness at the Turn of the Century
  • 7. Mapping the Hygienic State
  • 8. Playing the Lone Game of Illness
  • 9. No Magic Mountain: The Latest Tuberculosis
  • Bibliographic Note
  • Notes
  • Illustration Sources
  • Index

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