Bargaining for Life

by Bates, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780812231205
• ISBN10: 0812231201
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

Using a wide range of sources, especially the extensive correspondence of a Philadelphia physician, Lawrence F. Flick, Barbara Bates portrays the lives of tuberculous men and women as they tried to cope with the illness, get treatment, earn their living, and maintain their social relationships.

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Tuberculosis and the Beginnings of Change, 1876-1903
Doctor Flick and Tuberculosis	p. 11
The Quest and the Treatment	p. 25
Helping Poor Consumptives	p. 42
Life as a Patient	p. 59
A Camp in the Mountains: The Beginnings of the White Haven Sanatorium	p. 75
New Systems of Care, 1903-1917
Research, Training, and Patient Care: The Henry Phipps Institute	p. 97
Achievement and Disappointment at the Institute	p. 116
Expansion at White Haven	p. 135
Economy, Charity, and the State	p. 152
The Private Sanatoriums	p. 173
Attention, Care, and Doctor's Orders: Tuberculosis Nursing	p. 197
The Final Years of George E. Macklin	p. 214
Into the Homes, Minds, and Lives of the Poor: Visiting Nurses	p. 231
Persuasion, Choice, and Circumstance	p. 250
Adjustments and Compromise, 1914-1938
Waiting Lists and Empty Beds	p. 269
"P.S. I Am...Colored"	p. 288
A Retrospective View
The Decline of Tuberculosis	p. 313
Conclusions and Epilogue	p. 328
Notes	p. 341
Bibliography of Selected Secondary Sources	p. 417
Index	p. 423
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