The Fight Against Tuberculosis In France
During the Interwar Period: A First Public Health Network

Patrice Bourdelais

 

(Abstract)

This lecture will be focused on the organization, at the end of the first World War of an organization to fight Tb in France. The political and social contexts and the reasons of such an organization will be developped as well. The structure of the intervention on the population will be precised, including the relationships between the local and the central level of the administration, the plurality of actors, the measure of the efficiency of the activity and an evaluation of the results, and the tensions created among the medical doctors.

A movie from a Charity (Œuvre Grancher), justifying its own action in sending children in the countryside, taken them away from the families, will give a good picture of the care itinerary and of the norms which are governing the discourses and the actions.

 

Patrice Bourdelais
Epidemics Laid Low
A History of What Happened in Rich Countries
English translation
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

A fair amount of pages can be read on line, by going to: http://books.google.com/books, and then searching for “epidemics laid low”.