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Consider two polar images of the same medical condition the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection Now Katherine Ott chronicles how in one century a romantic ambiguous affliction of the spirit was transformed into a disease that threatened public health and civic order She persuasively argues that there was no constant identity to the disease over time no core tuberculosis 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 preindustrial world of 1870 in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middleclass malaise that conferred virtue heightened spirituality and gentility on the sufferer to the postindustrial 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 Otts 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 diseasemedical supplies advertisements for faraway rest cures outdoor sick porches and invalid hammocksOtt provides insight into peoples understanding of illness and how to combat it Fevered Lives underscores the shifting meanings of consumptiontuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history
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Consider two polar images of the same medical condition the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection Now Katherine Ott chronicles how in one century a romantic ambiguous affliction of the spirit was transformed into a disease that threatened public health and civic order She persuasively argues that there was no constant identity to the disease over time no core tuberculosis 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 preindustrial world of 1870 in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middleclass malaise that conferred virtue heightened spirituality and gentility on the sufferer to the postindustrial 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 Otts 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 diseasemedical supplies advertisements for faraway rest cures outdoor sick porches and invalid hammocksOtt provides insight into peoples understanding of illness and how to combat it Fevered Lives underscores the shifting meanings of consumptiontuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history
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