The Pest Hospital: Memory, Vaccines, and Serum Therapy in Kansas City.
Antiserum
Contagion
Diphtheria
Medical history
Medical narrative
Pediatrics
Scarlet fever
Serum therapy
Vaccination
Journal
The Journal of medical humanities
ISSN: 1573-3645
Titre abrégé: J Med Humanit
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8917478
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
accepted:
07
01
2023
medline:
11
9
2023
pubmed:
25
2
2023
entrez:
24
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A medical narrative from a woman in her 90s describes her childhood bout with diphtheria in Kansas City, Missouri, apparently immediately after vaccination, her confinement in the "pest hospital," and her treatment with what she understood as a blood transfusion from a donor who was found through a radio appeal. In this essay, we trace the narrative back to the institutions, medical practices, and historical context, examining both the underlying history of medical practice and scientific understanding that is reflected in her experience and also the contexts of that history, including racial and religious attitudes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36823390
doi: 10.1007/s10912-023-09781-6
pii: 10.1007/s10912-023-09781-6
pmc: PMC9950004
doi:
Substances chimiques
Vaccines
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
401-407Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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