Living in the shadow of death : tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in America / Sheila M. Rothman.

[New York] : BasicBooks, [1994], ©1994.

xi, 319 pages ; 25 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: C.M.B.

Copy 3 Supplier/Donor: C.M.B.

Invalid experience: New England men, 1810-60 -- Dreaded disease -- Manhood and invalidism -- Pursuit of health -- Body and soul -- Female invalid: the narrative of Deborah Vinal Fiske, 1806-44 -- Coming of age -- Domestic duties -- Deborah and her doctors -- Intensive care -- Health seekers in the West, 1840-90 -- Come west and live -- Physician as living proof -- Western narrative -- Becoming a patient, 1882-1940 -- Disease of the masses -- Confining for cure -- In the shadow of the sanatorium -- Sanatorium narrative.

Includes bibliographic references and index