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- catalog abstract "What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late nineteenth century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculosis" and "consumption" were diagnosed, defined, and treated distinctively by both lay and professional health workers. Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality, and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients. Ott's focus is the changing definition of the disease in different historical eras and environments. She explores its external trappings, from the symptoms doctors chose to notice (whether a pale complexion or a tubercle in a dish) to the significance of the economic and social circumstances of the patient. Emphasizing the material culture of disease - medical supplies, advertisements for faraway rest cures, outdoor sick porches, and invalid hammocks - Ott provides insight into people's understanding of illness and how to combat it. Fevered Lives underscores the shifting meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history.".
- catalog contributor b9761524.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Ott's focus is the changing definition of the disease in different historical eras and environments. She explores its external trappings, from the symptoms doctors chose to notice (whether a pale complexion or a tubercle in a dish) to the significance of the economic and social circumstances of the patient. Emphasizing the material culture of disease - medical supplies, advertisements for faraway rest cures, outdoor sick porches, and invalid hammocks - Ott provides insight into people's understanding of illness and how to combat it. Fevered Lives underscores the shifting meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history.".
- catalog description "Thinking about disease -- Sickbed and symptoms in the 1870s and 1880s -- The ecology of the chest -- Into the germ zone -- Laboring to get well -- Goods for the medical marketplace and invalid trade -- Race-ing illness at the turn of the century -- Mapping the hygienic state -- Playing the lone game of illness -- No magic mountain : the latest tuberculosis.".
- catalog description "What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late nineteenth century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculosis" and "consumption" were diagnosed, defined, and treated distinctively by both lay and professional health workers. Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality, and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients.".
- catalog extent "viii, 242 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0674299108 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1997 B-872".
- catalog subject "616.9/95/00973 20".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century United States.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century United States.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century".
- catalog subject "RC309.A4 O88 1996".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis United States History.".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis, Pulmonary United States History.".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis, Pulmonary history".
- catalog subject "WF 11 AA1 O8f 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Thinking about disease -- Sickbed and symptoms in the 1870s and 1880s -- The ecology of the chest -- Into the germ zone -- Laboring to get well -- Goods for the medical marketplace and invalid trade -- Race-ing illness at the turn of the century -- Mapping the hygienic state -- Playing the lone game of illness -- No magic mountain : the latest tuberculosis.".
- catalog title "Fevered lives : tuberculosis in American culture since 1870 / Katherine Ott.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".