Thesis ID: CBB001567239

An Intolerable Affliction: A History of Lupus Vulgaris in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain (cited 2010)

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This thesis will present the histories of a `forgotten¿ disease ¿ lupus vulgaris ¿ and a `forgotten¿ therapy ¿ localised UV light treatment, especially the Finsen lamp. Lupus vulgaris, a severely disfiguring skin disease, identified as a cutaneous form of tuberculosis in 1884, stimulated great medical and public concern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but has virtually disappeared from histories of medicine, even those of tuberculosis itself. Of many treatments attempted the most effective, prior to the development of drug treatments in the 1940s, was the Finsen lamp, a localised UV light which won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for its inventor, Niels Ryberg Finsen. Much like lupus vulgaris, the Finsen lamp is largely absent from histories, despite considerable interest from Finsen¿s contemporaries. The thesis recovers these histories to demonstrate their social and medical significance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how they speak to bigger issues in the history of medicine, such as the reception of germ theory and the development and acceptance of other medical technologies such as the X-ray.

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Description Defense date not indicated; cited by UMI in 2010. Cited in ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing. Proquest Document ID: 1314579638.


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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Greta
Venkat, Bharat Jayram
Bonea, Amelia
Leeming-Latham, Clare
Worboys, Michael
Webb, James L. A.
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Tuberculosis
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Public health
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Argentina
Europe
Canada
Ireland
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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