| Title |
The last crusade : the war on consumption, 1862-1954 / Mark Caldwell. |
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| Imprint |
New York : Atheneum, 1988. |
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| Description |
336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Content |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-316) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Images of tuberculosis in the nineteenth century -- Edward Livingston Trudeau and the war on consumption -- The rise of the sanatorium -- Rituals of the cure -- Saranac Lake -- Tuberculosis and the medical profession -- Reform, philanthropy, and business -- Novels, plays, and films -- Antibiotics and the closing of the sanitoriums -- Illness imagined. |
| Subject(s) |
Tuberculosis -- History.
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