| Description |
1 online resource (x, 416 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
People with tuberculosis looking for cures -- From being sick to becoming a patient -- Unruly and well-adjusted patients -- The fight against tuberculosis and the culture of hygiene -- The obsession with contagion -- A disease of excesses -- Immigration, race, and tuberculosis -- A female disease -- Forging the healthy body : physical education, soccer, childhood, and tuberculosis -- Tuberculosis and regeneration : imagined cities, green spaces, and hygienic housing |
| Summary |
The first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in Latin America demonstrates that in addition to being a biological phenomenon disease is also a social construction effected by rhetoric, politics, and the daily life of its victims |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Tuberculosis -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History
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Public health -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- history
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- prevention & control
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Preventive Health Services -- history
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Socioeconomic Factors
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Public health
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Tuberculosis
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| SUBJECT |
Argentina |
| Subject |
Argentina -- Buenos Aires
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822394198 |
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0822394197 |
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9786613292261 |
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6613292265 |
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