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Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road by Barron H. Lerner
Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road

Barron H. Lerner

Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road

Barron H. Lerner

243 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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The most controversial strategy used by American health officers to control tuberculosis was forcible detention. Since 1903, Lerner notes, health departments have locked up tuberculosis patients whose behavior presented a public health threat. Usi...

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