282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tuberculosis was a main cause of distress, disablement, and death in England until the late 1950s. First published in 1988, The Retreat of Tuberculosis 1850–1950 is the first study of the personal, social, and economic consequences of the disease, changing fashions in treatment, and the response of government.
Sanatoria, revered in public memory as havens of healing, emerge from Dr Smith’s... Read more
Preface 1. Incidence 2. Etiologies 3. Responses 4. Sanatoria 5. Remedies 6. Environmental Etiologies 7. Etiologies, Work and Spirit 8. Conclusion
Biography
Francis Barrymore Smith (1932–2015) was a distinguished historian of modern Britain and Australia, making original contributions to the history of politics and culture, and especially to the social history of health and medicine, a field he pioneered. As a supervisor of over 40 doctoral students, a founder of the journal Australian Cultural History, and Honorary Secretary of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he was a formative influence on humanities scholarship in Australia.
