The Social Construction of Disease: Two Metaphors of the Tuberculous Patient

Caralee Caplan

doi:10.26443/mjm.v1i2.720

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (1995)

The Social Construction of Disease: Two Metaphors of the Tuberculous Patient

Caralee E. Caplan, B.A.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/mjm.v1i2.720
Submitted: November 9, 2020
Published: 2020-12-01

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References

Dubos R and Dubos J. The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., pp. 71-72; 1952.
McMurry NM. "And I? I Am in a Consumption": The Tuberculous Patient, 1780-1930. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, p. 6; 1985.
Sontag S, ed. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. New York, NY: Doubleday, p. 4; 1990.
Whitney DH. The Family Physician and Guide to Health. (H. Gilbert, 1883), p. 60 qtd. in McMurry, p. 18.
McMurry, pp. 20-21.
Dubos, p. 60.
Dubos, p. 59.
Dubos, p. 59.
Perkins D. English Romantic Writers. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. 1046.
Forman MB, ed. The Letters of John Keats, v. 2. London: Oxford UP, pp. 540-541; 1931.
Sontag, p. 20.
Stowe HB, Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York, NY: Signet Classic, pp. 282-283; 1981.
Murry JM, ed. Journal of Katherine Mansfield. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, p. 167; 1927.
Koch R. "The Etiology of Tuberculosis," trans. Dr. and Mrs. Max Pinner. New York, NY: National Tuberculosis Association; 1932.
Hunt LW. The People versus Tuberculosis. Danville, IL: Interstate Publishers, p. iii; 1966.
Comstock GW. Variability of tuberculosis trends in a time of resurgence. Clinical Infectious Diseases 19: 1015-1022; 1994.
Ryan F. The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won--and Lost. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company; 1992.
Ryan, p. 386.
FitzGerald JM, Grzybowski S, Allen EA. The impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on tuberculosis and its control. Chest 100: 191-200; 1991.
Burwen DR, Bloch AB, Griffin LD, Ciesielski CA, Stern HA, Onorato IM. National trends in the concurrence of tuberculosis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Archives of Internal Medicine 155: 1281-1286; 1995.
Huebner RE, Castro KG. The changing face of tuberculosis. Annual Review of Medicine 46: 47-55; 1995.
Huebner, p. 49.
Sontag, p. 112.
Comstock, p. 1015.
Brudney K, Dobkin J. Resurgent tuberculosis in New York City: human immunodeficiency virus, homelessness, and the decline of tuberculosis control programs. American Review of Respiratory Disease 144: 745-749; 1991.
Sbarbaro JA, Tuberculosis in the 1990s: epidemiology and therapeutic challenge. Chest 108: 58S-62S; 1995.
Simpson SQ, Jones PW, Davies PDO, Cushing A. Social impact of respiratory infections. Chest 108: 63S-69S; 1995.
Ryan, p. 391.
Ryan, p. 391.
Frieden TR, Fujiwara PI, Washko RM, Hamburg MA. Tuberculosis in New York City - turning the tide. New England Journal of Medicine 333: 229-233; 1995.

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tuberculosis
sociology
history
metaphor

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[1] Dubos R and Dubos J. The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., pp. 71-72; 1952.

[2] McMurry NM. "And I? I Am in a Consumption": The Tuberculous Patient, 1780-1930. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, p. 6; 1985.

[3] Sontag S, ed. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. New York, NY: Doubleday, p. 4; 1990.

[4] Whitney DH. The Family Physician and Guide to Health. (H. Gilbert, 1883), p. 60 qtd. in McMurry, p. 18.

[5] McMurry, pp. 20-21.

[6] Dubos, p. 60.

[7] Dubos, p. 59.

[8] Dubos, p. 59.

[9] Perkins D. English Romantic Writers. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. 1046.

[10] Forman MB, ed. The Letters of John Keats, v. 2. London: Oxford UP, pp. 540-541; 1931.

[11] Sontag, p. 20.

[12] Stowe HB, Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York, NY: Signet Classic, pp. 282-283; 1981.

[13] Murry JM, ed. Journal of Katherine Mansfield. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, p. 167; 1927.

[14] Koch R. "The Etiology of Tuberculosis," trans. Dr. and Mrs. Max Pinner. New York, NY: National Tuberculosis Association; 1932.

[15] Hunt LW. The People versus Tuberculosis. Danville, IL: Interstate Publishers, p. iii; 1966.

[16] Comstock GW. Variability of tuberculosis trends in a time of resurgence. Clinical Infectious Diseases 19: 1015-1022; 1994.

[17] Ryan F. The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won--and Lost. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company; 1992.

[18] Ryan, p. 386.

[19] FitzGerald JM, Grzybowski S, Allen EA. The impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on tuberculosis and its control. Chest 100: 191-200; 1991.

[20] Burwen DR, Bloch AB, Griffin LD, Ciesielski CA, Stern HA, Onorato IM. National trends in the concurrence of tuberculosis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Archives of Internal Medicine 155: 1281-1286; 1995.

[21] Huebner RE, Castro KG. The changing face of tuberculosis. Annual Review of Medicine 46: 47-55; 1995.

[22] Huebner, p. 49.

[23] Sontag, p. 112.

[24] Comstock, p. 1015.

[25] Brudney K, Dobkin J. Resurgent tuberculosis in New York City: human immunodeficiency virus, homelessness, and the decline of tuberculosis control programs. American Review of Respiratory Disease 144: 745-749; 1991.

[26] Sbarbaro JA, Tuberculosis in the 1990s: epidemiology and therapeutic challenge. Chest 108: 58S-62S; 1995.

[27] Simpson SQ, Jones PW, Davies PDO, Cushing A. Social impact of respiratory infections. Chest 108: 63S-69S; 1995.

[28] Ryan, p. 391.

[29] Ryan, p. 391.

[30] Frieden TR, Fujiwara PI, Washko RM, Hamburg MA. Tuberculosis in New York City - turning the tide. New England Journal of Medicine 333: 229-233; 1995.