Disease and class : tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society / Georgina D. Feldberg.
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TextSeries: Health and medicine in American societyPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585031169
- 9780585031163
- 9780813522173
- 081352217X
- 9780813522180
- 0813522188
- 0813568250
- 9780813568256
- Tuberculosis -- Government policy -- United States -- History
- Tuberculosis -- Government policy -- Canada -- History
- Tuberculosis -- history
- Tuberculosis -- prevention & control
- BCG Vaccine -- history
- North America
- MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- Tuberculosis -- Government policy
- Canada
- United States
- Infectious Diseases
- Medicine
- Health & Biological Sciences
- 614.5/42/0973 20
- RC310.5 .F45 1995eb
- WF 11 DA2 F3d 1995
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-265) and index.
Introduction : Tuberculosis as a different kind of disease -- Disease and the agrarian order : tuberculosis before Koch -- Coping with Koch's challenges : bacteria, biologics, and the economy of disease, 1880-1915 -- Spit and polish : the middle-class crusade to build resistance, 1900-1925 -- Medicine, science, and the national interest : American responses to the BCG vaccine in the 1920s -- For cows, boys, and Indians : North American trials of BCG, 1924-1946 -- "Not a substitute for approved hygienic measures" : BCG and the postwar campaign against tuberculosis -- Conclusion : Restoring history to understand the resurgence of tuberculosis.
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