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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459930303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-86750-4; 9786612867507; 0-7735-7704-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 35
• Altri autori (Persone): CondrauFlurin; WorboysMichael <1948->
• Disciplina: 616.9/95
• Soggetti: Tuberculosis - History; Tuberculosis; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.