The meetings of the Northern California French History group also brought kindred spirits together for serious yet convivial historiographical discussion. The members of the Berkeley–San Francisco History, Medicine, and Culture group (affectionately and irreverently known as the “Med-Heads”) were repeatedly exposed to tuberculosis Lisa Cody, Caroline Acker, and Robert Martensen were particularly helpful. Jack also volunteered extensive advice on graphing and computing. Guenter Risse and Jack Pressman, my colleagues in the History of Health Sciences Department at the University of California, San Francisco, have greatly enlarged my view of the history of medicine and have never failed to engage me in fruitful discussion and debate. James Kolp for their insights concerning Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. I would also like to thank Mary Jo Savage and the Rev. I am grateful to my sisters, Elizabeth Barnes and Ann Deschamps, and the Batistas, Roy, Kathy, Peggy, Matthew, and Marc, for their support. Deirdre O’Reilly and Elizabeth Aife Murray gave immeasurable assistance during the preparation of the manuscript, and Stuart Kogod of RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco did yeoman’s service on the illustrations. I owe many thanks to Neil Leonard for his editorial and strategic advice over the years. Tim Lennon and Lisa Schiff generously gave me thorough readings and helpful comments on the dissertation version of this study. Reggie Zelnik offered sage advice and gave freely of his time from the beginning. Denise Herd of the School of Public Health contributed her expertise to this project as a member of my dissertation committee, as did Thomas Laqueur, who cheerfully challenged me with his eclectic and imaginative sense of the history of the human body. She has also been my mentor in the history of disease and a trusted friend, and I owe her more than the devoted thanks I can express here. From the very earliest stages of this project, Catherine Kudlick has been an acute reader and supportive critic of countless drafts. Annie Lenhart provided moral support and vital French newspaper clippings.īack in the Bay Area, a number of discussion groups and the cooperative atmosphere fostered by the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley, provided a friendly and comfortable academic environment in which to write and discuss the dissertation from which this book developed.

Allan Mitchell was generous with source material and drafts of his own work and cordially agreed to disagree with me on certain matters of interpretation. My research benefited from many helpful strategic discussions with, among others, Patrick Fridenson, Alain Corbin, Olivier Faure, Pierre Guillaume, Bernard-Pierre Lécuyer, Alain Cottereau, Lion Murard, and Patrick Zylberman. Jérôme Renaud of the Service des Archives, Assistance publique de Paris, graciously facilitated access to hospital records and other holdings. Colette Chambelland and Françoise Blum of the Musée social in Paris helped me find many elusive and invaluable materials. Jean Legoy, Philippe Manneville, and Didier Nourrisson in Le Havre helped me understand what makes that city so fascinating for historical study and guided me in situating tuberculosis within a local social and political context. In France, many people went out of their way to help me in my efforts to track down and make sense of my sources. Dissertation writing support was provided by the Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities. The research for this project was funded in part by the French government’s Chateaubriand fellowship program and the Lurcy Charitable Trust. The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995 1995.

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