Social History of Medicine virtual issue on tuberculosis
Social History of Medicine marks World Tuberculosis Day
(24 March) with a Virtual Issue on tuberculosis. With an introduction by
Professor Greta Jones, a selection of articles and book reviews are freely
available for download from now until the end of May 2013.
The papers can be accessed here:
Or click on the links below to go directly to an article
of interest:
Introduction
Greta Jones, Emeritus Professor of History, University of
Ulster An introduction to this Social History of Medicine virtual issue
Articles
Simon Szreter
The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain’s
Mortality Decline
c.1850-1914: a Re-interpretation of the Role of Public Health
William Johnston
A Genealogy of Tubercular Disease in Japan
Vera Blinn Reber
Blood, Coughs, and Fever: Tuberculosis and the Working
Class of Buenos Aires, Argentina 1885-1915
Jim Phillips and Michael French
State Regulation and the Hazards of Milk,1900-1939
Sunil Amrith
In Search of a ‘Magic Bullet’ for Tuberculosis: South
India and Beyond,
1955-1965
John Welshman
Compulsion, Localism, and Pragmatism: The Micro-Politics
of Tuberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom, 1950–1965
Susan Kelly
Education of Tubercular Children in Northern Ireland,
1921 to 1955
Arthur McIvor
Germs at Work: Establishing Tuberculosis as an
Occupational Disease in Britain, c.1900–1951 Documents and Sources Linda Bryder
‘Not Always One and the Same Thing’: The Registration of Tuberculosis Deaths in
Britain, 1900–1950 Reviews F. B. Smith The Making of a Social Disease.
Tuberculosis in Nineteenth Century France
Linda Bryder
Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the
Social Experience of Illness in American History
F. B. Smith
The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan
Linda Bryder
‘Captain of all these men of death’. The History of
Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland
María Silvia Di Liscia
La Ciudad Impura: Salud, Tuberculosis y Cultura en Buenos
Aires, 1870–1950
Alison Bashford
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of
Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
Keir Waddington
Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of
an Infectious Disease
Graham Mooney, PhD
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