Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease 9780773577046

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Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease
 9780773577046

Table of contents :
Contents
1 Tuberculosis and Its Histories: Then and Now
2 Lay Disease Narratives, Tuberculosis, and Health Education Films
3 Targeting Patient Zero
4 Beyond the Total Institution: Towards a Reinterpretation of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium
5 The Great White Plague Turns Alien: Tuberculosis and Immigration in Australia, 1901–2001
6 Importation, Deprivation, and Susceptibility: Tuberculosis Narratives in Postwar Britain
7 Before McKeown: Explaining the Decline of Tuberculosis in Britain, 1880–1930
8 “The right not to suffer consumption”: Health, Welfare Charity, and the Working Class in Spain during the Restoration Period
9 Lobbying and Resistance with regard to Policy on Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain, 1900–1939: An Inside/Outside Model
10 At Home in the Colonies: the WHO-MRC Trials at the Madras Chemotherapy Centre in the 1950s and 1960s
Contributors
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