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• catalog abstract "For more than 150 years, until well into the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the dreaded scourge that AIDS is for us today. Based on the diaries and letters of hundreds of individuals over five generations, Living in the Shadow of Death is the first book to present an intimate and evocative portrait of what it was like for patients as well as families and communities to struggle against this dreaded disease. "Consumption," as it used to be called, is one of the oldest known diseases. But it wasn't until the beginning of the nineteenth century that it became pervasive and feared in the United States, the cause of one out of every five deaths. Consumption crossed all boundaries of geography and social class. How did people afflicted with the disease deal with their fate? How did their families? What did it mean for the community when consumption affected almost every family and every town? Sheila M. Rothman documents a fascinating story. Each generation had its own special view of the origins, transmission, and therapy for the disease, definitions that reflected not only medical knowledge but views on gender obligations, religious beliefs, and community responsibilities. In general, Rothman points out, tenacity and resolve, not passivity or resignation, marked people's response to illness and to their physicians. Convinced that the outdoor life was better for their health, young men with tuberculosis in the nineteenth century interrupted their college studies and careers to go to sea or to settle in the West, in the process shaping communities in Colorado, Arizona, and California. Women, anticipating the worst, raised their children to be welcomed as orphans in other people's homes. In the twentieth century, both men and women entered sanatoriums, sacrificing autonomy for the prospect of a cure. Poignant as biography, illuminating as social history, this book reminds us that ours is not the first generation to cope with the death of the young or with the stigma of disease and the proper limits of medical authority. In an era when a deadly contagious disease once again casts its shadow over individual lives and communities, Living in the Shadow of Death gives us a new sense of our own past as it equips us to comprehend the present.".
• catalog contributor b5537249.
• catalog coverage "United States".
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description ""Consumption," as it used to be called, is one of the oldest known diseases. But it wasn't until the beginning of the nineteenth century that it became pervasive and feared in the United States, the cause of one out of every five deaths. Consumption crossed all boundaries of geography and social class. How did people afflicted with the disease deal with their fate? How did their families? What did it mean for the community when consumption affected almost every family and every town?".
• catalog description "Convinced that the outdoor life was better for their health, young men with tuberculosis in the nineteenth century interrupted their college studies and careers to go to sea or to settle in the West, in the process shaping communities in Colorado, Arizona, and California. Women, anticipating the worst, raised their children to be welcomed as orphans in other people's homes. In the twentieth century, both men and women entered sanatoriums, sacrificing autonomy for the prospect of a cure.".
• catalog description "For more than 150 years, until well into the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the dreaded scourge that AIDS is for us today. Based on the diaries and letters of hundreds of individuals over five generations, Living in the Shadow of Death is the first book to present an intimate and evocative portrait of what it was like for patients as well as families and communities to struggle against this dreaded disease.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Invalid experience: New England men, 1810-60 -- Dreaded disease -- Manhood and invalidism -- Pursuit of health -- Body and soul -- Female invalid: the narrative of Deborah Vinal Fiske, 1806-44 -- Coming of age -- Domestic duties -- Deborah and her doctors -- Intensive care -- Health seekers in the West, 1840-90 -- Come west and live -- Physician as living proof -- Western narrative -- Becoming a patient, 1882-1940 -- Disease of the masses -- Confining for cure -- In the shadow of the sanatorium -- Sanatorium narrative.".
• catalog description "Poignant as biography, illuminating as social history, this book reminds us that ours is not the first generation to cope with the death of the young or with the stigma of disease and the proper limits of medical authority. In an era when a deadly contagious disease once again casts its shadow over individual lives and communities, Living in the Shadow of Death gives us a new sense of our own past as it equips us to comprehend the present.".
• catalog description "Sheila M. Rothman documents a fascinating story. Each generation had its own special view of the origins, transmission, and therapy for the disease, definitions that reflected not only medical knowledge but views on gender obligations, religious beliefs, and community responsibilities. In general, Rothman points out, tenacity and resolve, not passivity or resignation, marked people's response to illness and to their physicians.".
• catalog extent "xi, 319 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Living in the shadow of death.".
• catalog identifier "0465030025".
• catalog isFormatOf "Living in the shadow of death.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : BasicBooks,".
• catalog relation "Living in the shadow of death.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "1994 L-459".
• catalog subject "616.9/95/00973 20".
• catalog subject "Death United States History.".
• catalog subject "RC310 .R68 1994".
• catalog subject "Terminally ill United States History.".
• catalog subject "Tuberculosis United States History.".
• catalog subject "Tuberculosis, Pulmonary United States History.".
• catalog subject "Tuberculosis, Pulmonary history".
• catalog subject "WF 11 AA1 R84L 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "Invalid experience: New England men, 1810-60 -- Dreaded disease -- Manhood and invalidism -- Pursuit of health -- Body and soul -- Female invalid: the narrative of Deborah Vinal Fiske, 1806-44 -- Coming of age -- Domestic duties -- Deborah and her doctors -- Intensive care -- Health seekers in the West, 1840-90 -- Come west and live -- Physician as living proof -- Western narrative -- Becoming a patient, 1882-1940 -- Disease of the masses -- Confining for cure -- In the shadow of the sanatorium -- Sanatorium narrative.".
• catalog title "Living in the shadow of death : tuberculosis and the social experience of illness in America / Sheila M. Rothman.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".