Questions: Week 6, Tuberculosis and the Public Health Response

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Margaret Galvan

In 1903 (pre-preventorium), AICP (Assoc. for Improving the Conditions of the Poor) board member John Seely Ward went to Europe for ideas to help American children with TB. According to Dr. Connoly, how did the French, German (and Danish) influence our attempts to treat (and prevent) tuberculosis in children? WHAT DID THIS TRIP SAY ABOUT THE RELATIVE POSITION OF US PUBLIC HEALTH AND ABOUT THE FORCES DRIVING IT?

How did the miasma theory of disease causation influence treatment methods of tuberculosis? (even after identification of causal bacterial organism)

Oppostion to preventoriums: It’s a facility filled with people infected with a communicable disease… How did the defense of preventoriums by proponents undermine their own goals?

About Margaret Galvan

Margaret Galvan is pursuing a PhD in English and a film studies certificate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Borough of Manhattan Community College and serves as one of the coordinators of OpenCUNY, the student organized, open-source, social media for the Graduate Center community. Her research focuses on the representation of women's bodies in twentieth and twenty-first century graphic, filmic, and text narratives.
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