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Tuberculosis in Town: Mobility of Patients in Montreal, 1925–1950
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Tuberculosis in Town: Mobility of Patients in Montreal, 1925–1950
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In the second quarter of the twentieth century, the ideal management of tuberculosis called for confinement and immobilization of the patient over a span of one or more years. At the same time, North American cities were being redeveloped in ways that promoted great personal mobility. From a compilation of 300 cases of tuberculosis patients in Montreal, the authors explore the contradictory pressures on urban working people, the resistance they mounted, and the coping strategies their families used to maintain much-needed mobility. Professionals' prescriptions for isolation and immobilization were undermined by a scarcity of resources for public action, producing a gulf between the ideals of modern public health and the realities of urban life.
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Histoire sociale/Social History
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Vol. 42
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no. 83
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69-106
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May 2009
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en
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Poutanen, Mary Anne, Sherry Olson, Raphael Fischler, and Kevin Schwartzman. “Tuberculosis in Town: Mobility of Patients in Montreal, 1925–1950.” Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. 42, no. 83 (May 2009): 69–106. http://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/38762.
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