Author: TURNER, DUNCAN.
Title: Air and Diet in Chronic Chest Diseases.
Description: Second Edition; Revised and Enlarged; Cr. 8vo; pp. xii, 146; patterned endpapers, original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, very good copy. Melbourne; George Robertson and Co.; 1896. Doctor Duncan Turner was a Melbourne-based physician with a speciality in chest diseases, including tuberculosis. Active from the 1880s to the 1910s, he had a prominent position in Victoria's medical fraternity. He is primarily remembered as an example of the persistence of contagionist-theory denialism in Australia during this period. Such characterisation grossly simplifies his nuanced views and the rationale behind them. Turner held legitimate concerns regarding the social stigma faced by sufferers of tuberculosis, and sought to promote the importance of a healthy environment and climate in preventing chest diseases. Turner's contribution to medicine should be re-examined, as an example of an individual contesting the discrimination experienced by people with chronic conditions and in need of care.
Keywords: mde medicine australia history tuberculosis
Title: Air and Diet in Chronic Chest Diseases.
Description: Second Edition; Revised and Enlarged; Cr. 8vo; pp. xii, 146; patterned endpapers, original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, very good copy. Melbourne; George Robertson and Co.; 1896. Doctor Duncan Turner was a Melbourne-based physician with a speciality in chest diseases, including tuberculosis. Active from the 1880s to the 1910s, he had a prominent position in Victoria's medical fraternity. He is primarily remembered as an example of the persistence of contagionist-theory denialism in Australia during this period. Such characterisation grossly simplifies his nuanced views and the rationale behind them. Turner held legitimate concerns regarding the social stigma faced by sufferers of tuberculosis, and sought to promote the importance of a healthy environment and climate in preventing chest diseases. Turner's contribution to medicine should be re-examined, as an example of an individual contesting the discrimination experienced by people with chronic conditions and in need of care.
Keywords: mde medicine australia history tuberculosis
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- Book number: 107944
- Book number: 107944