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Collapse and Expand: Architecture and Tuberculosis Therapy in Montreal, 1909, 1933, 1954 (2008)

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Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Chemotherapy Tuberculosis Medicine and technology, relationships Architecture 20th century Montreal (Quebec, Canada)

This paper explores the complex reflexive relationships among technologies associated with tuberculosis care and treatment: the fresh air cure, surgical collapse therapy, architecture, and chemotherapy. We review the architectural histories of the Royal Edward Laurentian Hospital (now the Montreal Chest Institute) to track important transformations of treatment environments. We recount how the rest-cure prevalent at the beginning of the twentieth century started a tradition, lasting until the age of antibiotics, in which architectural settings were deployed as physical agents of treatment. A technology in this sense, then, is a set of resource-using practices marshaled to eradicate the disease. We argue that the endurance of specialized tuberculosis architecture, with its porches, balconies, and sunning galleries, provided crucial material and spatial continuity for therapy, even after chemotherapy's successes augured the end of dedicated tuberculosis hospitals and sanatoria.

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Authors & Contributors
Slater, Leo B.
Janina Kehr
Michelle Slaughter
Karin Larkin
Venkat, Bharat Jayram
Razumenko, Fedir
Journals
Medical History
Historical Archaeology
Social History of Medicine
Pharmacy in History
History of Science
History and Technology
Publishers
University of Leeds (United Kingdom
The Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College London
Springer
Oxford University Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Tuberculosis
Medicine
Chemotherapy
Disease and diseases
Cancer; tumors
People
Ehrlich, Paul
Forlanini, Carlo
Kholtsman, Volf S.
Grimmett, Leonard George
Finsen, Niels Ryberg
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Wales
Colorado (U.S.)
Institutions
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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