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... |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Tuberculosis -- England -- Folkestone -- History.
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Tuberculosis. |
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England -- Folkestone. |
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History. |
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Tuberculosis -- England -- Sandgate -- History.
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England -- Sandgate. |
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Sanatoriums -- History.
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Sanatoriums. |
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Folkestone (England)
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Sandgate (England)
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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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) |
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1443843032 (electronic book) |
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1443839671 |
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9781443839679 |
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