ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis was a stigmatized disease, with a strong social meaning developed by medicine itself. In this paper, we make an analysis of the medical conceptions about the disease, and their repercussions on patients in a special place such as tuberculosis sanatoriums. In the first place, we enumerate the sanatoriums in the province of Cordoba, after that, we study the medical views about the sanatoriums and the infection, as a central element for hospitalized patients with tuberculosis. Later, we analyze the myths generated around the disease, and finally, we try to understand how these myths made possible to create a particular social group within those sanatoriums.
Subject(s)
Hospitals , Infection Control , Public Health , Social Alienation , Stereotyping , Tuberculosis , Argentina/ethnology , History, 20th Century , Hospitals/history , Hospitals, Isolation/economics , Hospitals, Isolation/history , Infection Control/economics , Infection Control/history , Infection Control Practitioners/economics , Infection Control Practitioners/education , Infection Control Practitioners/history , Infection Control Practitioners/psychology , Public Health/economics , Public Health/education , Public Health/history , Social Alienation/psychology , Tuberculosis/economics , Tuberculosis/ethnology , Tuberculosis/history , Tuberculosis/psychologyABSTRACT
Six furoquinolines and five coumarins have been isolated from the roots of Esenbeckia grandiflora subsp. brevipetiolata. The leaves yielded two dihydrochalcones and two flavonol rhamnosides. One of the coumarins (5-senecioyl-xanthotoxin) and the dihydrochalcones are novel compounds and their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods. The comparison with the dihydrochalcones previously isolated from another subspecies, E. grandiflora subsp. grandiflora is also provided.
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Chalcone/chemistry , Coumarins/chemistry , Phytotherapy , Plant Extracts/chemistry , Plants, Medicinal , Brazil , Humans , Medicine, Traditional , Plant Leaves , Plant RootsABSTRACT
The article analyzes the views of three Argentinean authors who wrote about tuberculosis in the first half of the twentieth century. All three had some form of contact with TB but each lived during a different period, came from a different social background, and worked with a different genre. These differences notwithstanding, their common focuses and viewpoints demonstrate how to a certain extent society shared a common perception of the disease.
