"Good Tuberculosis Men"
Subtitle: The Army Medical Department's Struggle with Tuberculosis
By: Carol R. Byerly
Publisher: Borden Institute, United States Army Medical Department Center and School
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780160921988
Subjects: Tuberculosis; History; Military Medicine; World War, 1939-1945; Medical care; World War, 1914-1918
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years: Fort Bayard, New Mexico; title: Life at Fort Bayard; title: The congressman as tuberculosis patient; title: Tuberculosis in World War I; title: "A gigantic task": treating and paying for tuberculosis in the interwar period; title: "Good tuberculosis women": tuberculosis nursing during the interwar period; title: Surviving the Great Depression: Fitzsimons and the New Deal; title: Camp follower: tuberculosis in World War II; title: Miracle drugs?