Disease and Class

Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society

Georgina D. Feldberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

1995
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-2218-0 (ISBN)

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Until a decade ago, the conquest of tuberculosis seemed one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. The resurgence of TB in the wake of AIDS has to be understood, Georgina Feldberg argues, in the context of decisions the U.S. Public Health Service made, beginning in the 1930s, to prevent TB through improved hygiene and long-term treatment with medications, rather than program of BCG vaccination that Canada and many other countries adopted. Feldberg's aim is not to judge which was the right choice, but to explain why the U.S. rejected the vaccine and the consequences of that choice. To American physicians, TB, the conditions that fostered it, and the kind of people who got it were a direct threat to their own middle-class values, institutions, and prosperity. They prescribed vigorous social reform, and by the 1960s, they were convinced the strategy had worked. But, as the country's commitment to strong social welfare programs waned, the bacteriological reality of TB reasserted itself. Feldberg challenges us to recognize that the interplay of disease, class, and the practice of medicine can have unexpected consequences for the health of nations. The book is essential reading for students and professionals in public health, medicine, and the history and sociology of medicine. Georgina D. Feldberg is director of the York University Centre for Health Studies in North York, Ontario. She is coauthor of Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System.

Georgina D. Feldberg is director of the York University Centre for Health Studies in North York, Ontario. She is coauthor of Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.1995
Reihe/Serie	Health and Medicine Series
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Pneumologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-2218-8 / 0813522188
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-2218-0 / 9780813522180
Zustand	Neuware