Article ID: CBB146303994

Lust for life: coping with tuberculosis in late nineteenth-century Europe (2020)

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The paper uses the correspondence of three Finns – Elias Erkko, Henrik Erkko and Hilda Asp – to analyse the conceptual and practical means with which late nineteenth-century-educated Europeans coped with ill health in general and tuberculosis in particular. While the need to gain control over (the threat of) disease may well be universal, the specific coping methods are historical and context-specific. They are both conceptual and practical, both individual and collective. The paper focuses on the 1880s and 1890s, a period when tuberculosis provided an especially lucrative subsector of the booming European medical marketplace. Sanatorium treatment was still only one among many treatment options, and the theory of the bacterial causation of tuberculosis was far from being universally accepted. The paper charts the options available for people suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and analyses the eclectic, sometimes idiosyncractic, ways that they combined elements from different conceptual scripts and therapeutic traditions.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Greta
Venkat, Bharat Jayram
Harju, Kaisa
Balestra, Alessandra Maria
Daidoji, Keiko
Jamieson, A K
Concepts
Tuberculosis
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Public health
Health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Canada
Australia
Ireland
Somalia
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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