The Making of a Social Disease

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In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease--ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to th...(展開全部) In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease--ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor--owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Home.html Associate Professor Director, Health & Societies Major Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley B.A. Yale University Teaching Fields: history of medicine; history of public health; global health policy and disease prevention; history, anthropology, and sociology of health and disease. Research Interests: history of infectious disease,...(展開全部) http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Home.html Associate Professor Director, Health & Societies Major Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley B.A. Yale University Teaching Fields: history of medicine; history of public health; global health policy and disease prevention; history, anthropology, and sociology of health and disease. Research Interests: history of infectious disease, epidemiology, and

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