Disease, class and social change : tuberculosis in Folkestone and Sandgate, 1880-1930 /
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 d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2012.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-307) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443843034 1443843032 |
