“Tuberculosis-Threatened Children”: The Rise and Fall of a Medical Concept in Norway, c. 1900--1960 (2008)
In this article I discuss the development of a concept in Norway, where children's tuberculosis became a significant part of the efforts against the disease especially in the 1920s. I pay particular attention to how an international corpus of knowledge about the relationship between children and tuberculosis that was established in the early 1900s was implemented in the Norwegian anti-tuberculosis work in the first half of the century. In Norway, the category that was created to identify children at risk of tuberculosis was straightforward: the tuberculosis-threatened child (tuberkulosetruet barn). How was this category constructed by medical research, and did it result in similar practices in Norway as elsewhere? Whereas Bryder and Connolly focus mainly on the establishment of the category of pre-tuberculous children in the early 1900s and the subsequent practice in the 1920s and 1930s in the institutions developed to deal with such children, I shall discuss the wider social, economic and medical developments in Norway that transformed the concept and its related practices from the late 1930s to the 1950s.
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