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Samuel K. Roberts (History, Columbia University) examines the emergence and application of house infection theory (the discovery, around 1890, that closed spaces posed the greatest risk for the spread of tuberculosis) to argue that its proponents only selectively applied the theory’s principles in conformity to political exigencies. Health professionals’ cartographical representations of house infection revealed in the early twentieth century an unwarranted focus on heredity and social pathology otherwise unsupported by the initial meaning of house infection theory.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
6:15 PM
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103
(a reception will follow the talk)
Co-sponsored by the Section on Medical History and the Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the African American Museum in Philadelphia
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