Disease and class : tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society /
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| Author / Creator: | Feldberg, Georgina D., 1956- |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xiii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Health and medicine in American society |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2354737 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Tuberculosis as a Different Kind of Disease
- Ch. 1. Disease and the Agrarian Order: Tuberculosis before Koch
- Ch. 2. Coping with Koch's Challenges: Bacteria, Biologics, and the Economy of Disease, 1880-1915
- Ch. 3. Spit and Polish: The Middle-Class Crusade to Build Resistance, 1900-1925
- Ch. 4. Medicine, Science, and the National Interest: American Responses to the BCG Vaccine in the 1920s
- Ch. 5. For Cows, Boys, and Indians: North American Trials of BCG, 1924-1946
- Ch. 6. "Not a Substitute for Approved Hygienic Measures": BCG and the Postwar Campaign against Tuberculosis
- Conclusion: Restoring History to Understand the Resurgence of Tuberculosis.
