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

  • Rothman, Sheila M.
Date:
[1994], ©1994
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

xi, 319 pages ; 25 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents

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.

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts
Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: C.M.B.
Copy 3 Supplier/Donor: C.M.B.

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  • Copy 1

    LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FI.6
    Open shelves
  • Copy 2

    LocationStatus
    Student Collection
    /ROT
    Open shelves
  • Copy 3

    LocationStatus
    Student Collection
    /ROT
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0465030025