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• Child-saving in the United States
• Tuberculosis : a children's disease
• Founding the preventorium
• The preventorium goes nationwide
• Science and the preventorium
• Tuberculosis in the "world of tomorrow"
• Conclusion: saving children, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Known as ""The Great Killer"" and ""The White Plague, "" few diseases influenced American life as much as tuberculosis. Sufferers migrated to mountain or desert climates believed to ameliorate symptoms. Architects designed homes with sleeping porches and verandas so sufferers could spend time in the open air. The disease even developed its own consumer culture complete with invalid beds, spittoons, sputum collection devices, and disinfectants. The ""preventorium, "" an institution designed to protect children from the ravages of the disease, emerged in this era of Progressive ideals in public health.In this book, Cynthia A. Connolly provides a provocative analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This unique facility was intended to prevent TB in indigent children from families labeled irresponsible or at risk for developing the disease. Yet, it also held deeply rooted assumptions about class, race, and ethnicity. Connolly goes further to explain how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.
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• Child-saving in the United States
• Tuberculosis: a children's disease
• Founding the preventorium
• The preventorium goes nationwide
• Science and the preventorium
• Tuberculosis in the "world of tomorrow"
• Conclusion: saving children, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Known as ""The Great Killer"" and ""The White Plague, "" few diseases influenced American life as much as tuberculosis. Sufferers migrated to mountain or desert climates believed to ameliorate symptoms. Architects designed homes with sleeping porches and verandas so sufferers could spend time in the open air. The disease even developed its own consumer culture complete with invalid beds, spittoons, sputum collection devices, and disinfectants. The ""preventorium, "" an institution designed to protect children from the ravages of the disease, emerged in this era of Progressive ideals in public health.In this book, Cynthia A. Connolly provides a provocative analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This unique facility was intended to prevent TB in indigent children from families labeled irresponsible or at risk for developing the disease. Yet, it also held deeply rooted assumptions about class, race, and ethnicity. Connolly goes further to explain how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.
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• ""Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Basics of Tuberculosis""; ""3 Occupational Safety and Health Regulation in Context""; ""4 Comparison of CDC Guidelines and Proposed OSHA Rule""; ""5 Occupational Risk of Tuberculosis""; ""6 Implementation and Effects of CDC Guidelines""; ""7 Regulation and the Future of Tuberculosis in the Workplace""; ""References""; ""A Study Origins and Activities""; ""B The Tuberculin Skin Test""; ""C The Occupational Tuberculosis Risk of Health Care Workers""

• ""D Effects of CDC Guidelines on Tuberculosis Control in Health Care Facilities""""E OSHA in a Health Care Context""; ""F Respiratory Protection and Control of Tuberculosis in Health Care and Other Facilities""; ""G Recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Eliminating Tuberculosis in the United States""; ""H Committee Biographies""

Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlour, daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow, and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection. Now Katherine Ott chronicles how in one century a romantic, ambiguous affliction of the spirit was transformed into a disease that threatened public health and civic order. She argues that there was no constant identity to the disease over time, no "core" tuberculosis. What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late-19th century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculosis" and "consumption" were diagnozed, defined and treated distinctively by both lay and professional health workers. Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients. Ott's focus is the changing definition of the disease in different historical eras and environments. She explores its eternal trappings, from the symptoms doctors chose to notice (whether a pale complexion or a tubercle in a dish) to the significance of the economic and social circumstances of the patient. Emphasizing the material culture of disease - medical supplies, advertisements for faraway rest cures, outdoor sick porches, and invalid hammocks - Ott privides insight into people's understanding of illness and how to combat it. "Fevered Lives" underscores the shifting meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in this cultural history.
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• 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.

For more than 150 years, until well into the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the dreaded scourge that AIDS is for us today. Based on the diaries and letters of hundreds of individuals over five generations, Living in the Shadow of Death is the first book to present an intimate and evocative portrait of what it was like for patients as well as families and communities to struggle against this dreaded disease. " Consumption" , as it used to be called, is one of the oldest known diseases. But it wasn't until the beginning of the nineteenth century that it became pervasive and feared in the United States, the cause of one out of every five deaths. Consumption crossed all boundaries of geography and social class. How did people afflicted with the disease deal with their fate? How did their families? What did it mean for the community when consumption affected almost every family and every town? Sheila M. Rothman documents a fascinating story. Each generation had its own special view of the origins, transmission, and therapy for the disease, definitions that reflected not only medical knowledge but views on gender obligations, religious beliefs, and community responsibilities.In general, Rothman points out, tenacity and resolve, not passivity or resignation, marked people's response to illness and to their physicians. Convinced that the outdoor life was better for their health, young men with tuberculosis in the nineteenth century interrupted their college studies and careers to go to sea or to settle in the West, in the process shaping communities in Colorado, Arizona, and California. Women, anticipating the worst, raised their children to be welcomed as orphans in other people's homes.In the twentieth century, both men and women entered sanatoriums, sacrificing autonomy for the prospect of a cure. Poignant as biography, illuminating as social history, this book reminds us that ours is not the first generation to cope with the death of the young or with.
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Before AIDS, few Americans though much about the possibility that they might contract a disease that would inexorably weaken them and dramatically shorten their lives, but for much of American history, most families faced such a catastrophe. A multi-generational social history of a disease now making an alarming comeback, this book spans 150 years, and tells the story of tuberculosis from the vantage point not of doctors and hospitals, but of patients and communities. It shows how the settlement of several Western cities, notably Colorado Springs and Pasadena, came out of a common perception equating health and the outdoor life. Sheila M. Rothman is the co-author of "The Willowbrook Wars".
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Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century, fears of infectiousness compounded their anguish. Historians have usually focused on the changing medical knowledge of tuberculosis or on the social campaigns to combat it. In Bargaining for Life, Barbara Bates documents the human story by chronicling how men and women attempted to cope with the illness, get treatment, earn their living, and maintain social relationships.
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