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(Health and Medicine in American Society.) By Georgina D. Feldberg. 274 pp. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1995. $18.95. ISBN 0-8135-2218-8.

When I first picked up Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society, the title led me to expect a polemic on capitalistic exploitation and repression of the working classes and the resultant epidemic of urban tuberculosis. Instead, I found a meticulously researched treatise on attitudes toward tuberculosis, once called consumption, on the part of the public health community, medical researchers, clinicians, social scientists, and the general public over the course of 150 momentous years. Like Professor Feldberg, I became interested in tuberculosis when it was no longer believed to present a threat to public health. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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