Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465030025 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 319 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Illustrated. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. First serial to Mirabella. For example, we meet Deborah Fiske (1806-1844), a deeply religious Massachusetts teacher who submitted to God's will even as she desperately tried to prepare her two daughters for their future as orphans; she also joined a support group of tubercular women who read medical texts and pooled their knowledge. Testimonies by patients confined to sanatoriums seethe with shame and anger at being stigmatized. . Other health-seekers migrated westward from the 1840s to the 1920s, lured by physicians in California or Colorado touting their region as a curative Eden. In an alarming epilogue, Rothman, a scholar at Columbia's College
Before AIDS, few Americans though much about the possibility that they might contract a disease that would inexorably weaken them and dramatically shorten their lives, but for much of American history, most families faced such a catastrophe. A multi-generational social history of a disease now making an alarming comeback, this book spans 150 years, and tells the story of tuberculosis from the vantage point not of doctors and hospitals, but of patients and communities. Sheila M. Rothman is the co-author of "The Willowbrook Wars".. It shows how the settlement of several Western cities, notably Colorado Springs and Pasade
Fascinating, informativeand overwhelmingly sad "[T]uberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. From 1800 to 1870 tuberculosis was responsible for one out of every five deaths. Paying little attention to geography, social class, or age, it struck rich and poor, young and old, and urban and rural residents.. Social History of TB and America J-whi Different than just a history text, this book documents how the public reacted, treated, and viewed those with consumption (TB). At times somewhat broad and other times limited in its examination of how different groups with TB were viewed by society, it is an interesting read on one of the most defining diseases humanity has ever had to fi. that read this book as he said it was excellent. He is very much into history and health pat MY husband is the one that read this book as he said it was excellent. He is very much into history and health conditions therein. Very factual and fascinating for him to read.