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- Publisher
- Springer Publishing
- ISSN
- 1062-8061
- eISSN
- 1938-1913
- DOI
- 10.1891/1062-8061.1.1.247
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
BOOK REVIEWS Bargaining hr Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938 By Barbara Bates (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992) When I first md Barbara Bates's social history of tuberculosis, it was in draft fbm and bow the title "Smrchhg After B1ackbcrries"-a reference to a line in the poem Yohn Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Ben& and, more broadIy, to the search oftuberculosis sufferers for a cure. I knew then that the book would find a large audience but that the title would not survive; it would be judged by the marketing department: as %o obscure." As much as I miss the subtleties envclopcd in the working title, I think Bwpini~g fw L@ is better and more appropriate, wmmbg up in a brief phrase MI he essence of the book and, on a more profound level, the experience of disease. In BagainiqgJbrL@ Bates presents two narratives. One is of the life of Dr. Lawrence Flick-himself a suEerer of tuberculosis-who specialized in the treatment of the disease and, more irnporrantly, crusaded on behaof its ~eress. Flick helped inaugurate Pennsylvania's first sanatorium, pushed for the creation of Rush HospitaI for Consumption and Allid Diseases, otganued the Phipps Instimte for the Study,
Journal
Nursing History Review – Springer Publishing
Published: Jan 1, 1993