
Fevered Lives
Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870
Katherine Ott(Author)
Harvard University Press
Published on 29. May 2014
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-674-18314-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Fevered Lives" explores the changing meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history. Emphasizing the material culture of disease, 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.
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Edition
Reprint 2014 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 Frontispiz, 32 s/w Abbildungen
32 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
587 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-18314-8 (9780674183148)
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Ott Katherine:
Katherine Ott is a Historian in the Smithsonian's Division of Science, Medicine, and Society, National Museum of American History.