Vera Blinn Reber

Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945

Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph examines tuberculosis comparatively and globally. It discusses patient perspectives and public responses to the changing perspectives of the causes of tuberculosis, considers public health efforts to limit contagion and explores various efforts to treat the disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780367585600
• ISBN-10: 036758560X
• Artikelnr.: 69890204

Autorenporträt

Vera Blinn Reber earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin with specialization on Latin American and Comparative History. She taught World and Latin American History at Shippensburg University for 37 years. Her primary research interests are Argentine and Paraguayan nineteenth century economic history and urban medical history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beneath the Anguish: Tuberculosis, 1870-1945 1. Tuberculosis:
Views and Perspectives 2. Two Cities and Their Medical Establishments:
Buenos Aires and Philadelphia, 1870-1945 3. Immigrants, Migrants and Public
Health Policies in Buenos Aires and Philadelphia 4. Tuberculosis Treatment
in Buenos Aires and Philadelphia: Patient and Physician Experiences 5. The
Sanatorium Age: Argentina and Pennsylvania 6. Poor and Ill: Children of
Buenos Aires and Philadelphia 7. Tuberculosis in Global and Comparative
Perspective. Epilogue: Tuberculosis Developments and Patient Experiences