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Bargaining for Life
A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
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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.
Using a wide range of sources, especially the extensive correspondence of a Philadelphia physician, Lawrence F. Flick, 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.
Author / Editor information
Barbara Bates (1928-2002) was a physician who studied history at the University of Kansas and the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught internal medicine and nursing. She developed and wrote a guide to patient history taking that has become the standard text for medical students.
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"This important and engrossing book is a state-of-the-art example of mature social history of medicine."
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"A rigorous, careful study of the medical and institutional history of the disease and organized efforts against it."
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"Bates's book is an important contribution to the social history of disease…It will be essential for scholars in other areas of American social history as well."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - Part I. Tuberculosis and the Beginnings of Change, 1876-1903
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1. Doctor Flick and Tuberculosis
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2. The Quest and the Treatment
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3. Helping Poor Consumptives
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4. Life as a Patient
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5. A Camp in the Mountains: The Beginnings of the White Haven Sanatorium
75 - Part II. New Systems of Care, 1903—1917
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6. Research, Training, and Patient Care: The Henry Phipps Institute
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7. Achievement and Disappointment at the Institute
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8. Expansion at White Haven
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9. Economy, Charity, and the State
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10. The Private Sanatoriums
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11. Attention, Care, and Doctor's Orders: Tuberculosis Nursing
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12. The Final Years of George E. Macklin
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13. Into the Homes, Minds, and Lives of the Poor: Visiting Nurses
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14. Persuasion, Choice, and Circumstance
250 - Part III. Adjustments and Compromise, 1914—1938
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15. Waiting Lists and Empty Beds
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16. “P.S. I Am ... Colored”
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17. The Decline of Tuberculosis
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18. Conclusions and Epilogue
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Notes
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Bibliography of Selected Secondary Sources
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Index
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December 18, 2015
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