Feb 2016
Francisque Crotte Treating a Patient with Tuberculosis using Electricity. Unknown artist.
A new special virtual issue of Medical History which focuses on tuberculosis is now available online. “From the Local to the Global: Fifty Years of Historical Research on Tuberculosis’, compiled and introduced by Dr Henrice Altink (Department of History, University of York), showcases landmark articles on the disease, published in Medical History between 1962 and 2014.
‘These publications demonstrate the main themes and issues in the scholarship on TB, as well as the shifting and varied approaches that historians have taken to study the disease,” says Dr Altink.
To access the collection for free please visit Medical History’s website.
Read more (in Spanish) about tuberculosis in HCS- Manguinhos:
Herrero, Maria Belen and Carbonetti, Adrian. La mortalidad por tuberculosis en Argentina a lo largo del siglo XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2013, vol.20, no.2, p.521-536. ISSN 0104-5970
Ortega Martos, Antonio Miguel. ¿Colonialismo biomédico o autonomía de lo local? Sanadores tradicionales contra la tuberculosis. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2010, vol.17, no.4, p.909-924. ISSN 0104-5970
Álvarez, Adriana. La experiencia de ser un ‘niño débil y enfermo’ lejos de su hogar: el caso del Asilo Marítimo, Mar del Plata (1893-1920). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2010, vol.17, no.1, p.13-31. ISSN 0104-5970
Carbonetti, Adrián Carlos Alfredo. La tuberculosis en la literatura argentina: tres ejemplos a través de la novela el cuento y la poesía. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Feb 2000, vol.6, no.3, p.479-492. ISSN 0104-5970
Armus, Diego. Milonguitas” en Buenos Aires (1910-1940): tango, ascenso social y tuberculosis. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2002, vol.9, p.187-207. ISSN 0104-5970
