Bargaining for Life : : A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938 / / Barbara Bates.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bates, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 42 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I. Tuberculosis and the Beginnings of Change, 1876-1903 --; 1. Doctor Flick and Tuberculosis --; 2. The Quest and the Treatment --; 3. Helping Poor Consumptives --; 4. Life as a Patient --; 5. A Camp in the Mountains: The Beginnings of the White Haven Sanatorium --; Part II. New Systems of Care, 1903-1917 --; 6. Research, Training, and Patient Care: The Henry Phipps Institute --; 7. Achievement and Disappointment at the Institute --; 8. Expansion at White Haven --; 9. Economy, Charity, and the State --; 10. The Private Sanatoriums --; 11. Attention, Care, and Doctor's Orders: Tuberculosis Nursing --; 12. The Final Years of George E. Macklin --; 13. Into the Homes, Minds, and Lives of the Poor: Visiting Nurses --; 14. Persuasion, Choice, and Circumstance --; Part III. Adjustments and Compromise, 1914-1938 --; 15. Waiting Lists and Empty Beds --; 16. "P.S. I Am ... Colored" --; Part IV. A Retrospective View --; 17. The Decline of Tuberculosis --; 18. Conclusions and Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography of Selected Secondary Sources --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512800296; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512800296
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Barbara Bates.

Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in the United States during the nineteenth century. The lingering illness devastated the lives of patients and families, and by the turn of the century, fears of infectiousness compounded their anguish. Historians have usually focused on the changing medical knowledge of tuberculosis or on the social campaigns to combat it.Using a wide range of sources, especially the extensive correspondence of a Philadelphia physician, Lawrence F. Flick, in Bargaining for Life Barbara Bates documents the human story by chronicling how men and women attempted to cope with the illness, get treatment, earn their living, and maintain social relationships.