Sustainability of High-Level Isolation Capabilities among US Ebola Treatment Centers.

To identify barriers to maintaining and applying capabilities of US high-level isolation units (HLIUs) used during the Ebola virus disease outbreak, during 2016 we surveyed HLIUs. HLIUs identified sustainability challenges and reported the highly infectious diseases they would treat. HLIUs expended substantial resources in development but must strategize models of sustainability to maintain readiness.

Discursos y prácticas en los sanatorios para tuberculosos en la provincia de Córdoba, 1910-1947 / Discourses and practices in the sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers in the province of Cordoba. 1910-1947

La tuberculosis fue una enfermedad estigmatizante, con una fuerte carga valorativa elaborada desde la misma medicina. Este trabajo pretende realizar un análisis de las concepciones médicas acerca de la enfermedad y su repercusión en los enfermos en un ámbito especial como fueron los sanatorios para tuberculosos. Se parte, para el análisis, de una enumeración de los sanatorios en la provincia de Córdoba, para luego estudiar las miradas médicas acerca de los sanatorios y el contagio como el elemento fundamental para la internación de los tuberculosos. Luego pasamos al análisis de los mitos que se generaron en torno a la enfermedad y, por último, tratamos de entender cómo estos generaron una la conformación de un grupo social particular en esos mismos sanatorios (AU)

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 (AU)

[Discourses and practices in the sanatoriums for tuberculosis sufferers in the province of Cordoba. 1910-1947]. / Discursos y prácticas en los sanatorios para tuberculosos en la provincia de Córdoba. 1910-1947.

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.

[The origins of the Pavilion Lazaretto: quarantine architecture between the 18th and 19th centuries]. / Los orígenes del Lazareto Pabellonario: la arquitectura cuarentenaria en el cambio del setecientos al ochocientos.

The model of pavilion lazaretto was built above the scientific basis established during the hospital reform process held in France on the lasts decades of the eighteenth century. The morphological solutions adopted for the new quarantine taxonomy has not been given by the example borrowed by the new typology of hospital as resulted in this discussion, but by existing quarantine and detention facilities in general. In this paper we will analyse all factors that have influenced in the configuration of this model of lazarettos.

The origins of the health defence system against contagious illness: the strategies of isolation and quarantine in Mediterranean cities from the XIV-XIX centuries.

From the onset of the Black Death in 1347-48, Italian cities which faced the Mediterranean, an epidemic sea, constructed a complex and articulated health defence system which was an example to all other western countries. The cornerstones of this health defence system lay in quarantine, sanitary cordons, lazarets, disinfection, and in the social regulation of the population at risk. Medicine played no part. Its impotence in dealing with epidemic diseases left health defence to the initiative of the civil authorities who rigorously fought the repeated incursions of plague, which from the end of Middle Ages severely tried and tested social organisation, economic life and public order, all of which were threatened by reactions of fear and aggression. From the fifteenth century onwards the public authorities instituted health magistracies which perfected policing and hygiene strategies based on isolation, separation and social control. This progressively extended to individuals in the community through 'health certificates'. This paper follows the evolution and crises of the conceptual, cultural adn institutional response to epidemics through the centuries up to the appearance of the plague of cholera and its disappearance.