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Author Arnold, Marc.

Title Disease, class and social change : tuberculosis in Folkestone and Sandgate, 1880-1930 / by Marc Arnold.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-307) and index.
Contents pt. I. Representations of tuberculosis -- pt. II. Public health and private interests -- pt. III. Early sanatorium treatment.
Summary This previously unexamined history of open-air treatment in English coastal resorts demonstrates how contrasting meanings were assigned to tuberculosis along lines of class. It assesses the shifting inter-relation of medical, political and social forces in determining responses to this devastating disease, and analyses the relationship between scientific ideas, in particular social evolution and germ theory, and attitudes to poverty and chronic disease. In Folkestone and Sandgate these confl...
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Subject Tuberculosis -- England -- Folkestone -- History.
Tuberculosis.
England -- Folkestone.
History.
Tuberculosis -- England -- Sandgate -- History.
England -- Sandgate.
Sanatoriums -- History.
Sanatoriums.
Folkestone (England)
Sandgate (England)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Arnold, Marc. Disease, class and social change. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012 (DLC) 2012494286
ISBN 9781443843034 (electronic book)
1443843032 (electronic book)
1443839671
9781443839679