Book ID: CBB352621807

Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires (2018)

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Reber, Vera Blinn (Author)


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Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 348
Language: English

This book focuses on the era during which the cause of tuberculosis had been identified, and public health officials were seeking to prevent it, but scientists had not yet found a cure. By examining tuberculosis comparatively in two Atlantic port cities, Buenos Aires and Philadelphia, it explores the medical, political and economic settings in which patients, physicians and urban officials lived and worked. Reber discusses the causes of tuberculosis, treatments and public health efforts to stop contagion, and how factors such as gender, age, class, nationality, beliefs and previous experiences shaped patient responses, and often defined the type of treatment.

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Authors & Contributors
Armus, Diego C.
Pablo von Stecher
Brewer, Amanda Lynn
Singh, Dhan Zunino
Wake, Naoko
Souza, Pablo
Journals
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Transfers
Social Science History
Social History
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Publishers
University of Rochester Press
Lugar Editorial
Edhasa
Duke University Press
Michigan State University
Princeton University
Concepts
Public health
Tuberculosis
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Etiology
Children
People
White, William Alanson
Royer, B. Franklin
Alcorta, Diego
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
18th century
Places
United States
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Argentina
Philadelphia, PA
Mexico
Great Britain
Institutions
Buenos Aires. Universidad
Círculo Médico Argentino
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