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Format: 1 online resource : , 42 illus.

ISBN: 9781512800296

Series Statement: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part I. Tuberculosis and the Beginnings of Change, 1876-1903 -- , 1. Doctor Flick and Tuberculosis -- , 2. The Quest and the Treatment -- , 3. Helping Poor Consumptives -- , 4. Life as a Patient -- , 5. A Camp in the Mountains: The Beginnings of the White Haven Sanatorium -- , Part II. New Systems of Care, 1903—1917 -- , 6. Research, Training, and Patient Care: The Henry Phipps Institute -- , 7. Achievement and Disappointment at the Institute -- , 8. Expansion at White Haven -- , 9. Economy, Charity, and the State -- , 10. The Private Sanatoriums -- , 11. Attention, Care, and Doctor's Orders: Tuberculosis Nursing -- , 12. The Final Years of George E. Macklin -- , 13. Into the Homes, Minds, and Lives of the Poor: Visiting Nurses -- , 14. Persuasion, Choice, and Circumstance -- , Part III. Adjustments and Compromise, 1914—1938 -- , 15. Waiting Lists and Empty Beds -- , 16. “P.S. I Am ... Colored” -- , Part IV. A Retrospective View -- , 17. The Decline of Tuberculosis -- , 18. Conclusions and Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Bibliography of Selected Secondary Sources -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.9783/9781512800296

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800296

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800296