The Veteran on Chemotherapy: A Case Study of Significant Psychosocial Factors as Seen in Ten Post-Hospitalized Tubercular Patients at the Chest Clinic of the Veterans Administration Regional Office, New York City, 1955
Abstract
The history of tuberculosis stems from antiquity. Until comparatively recent years, this disease outranked all others as the "greatest single cause of...death in the Western World". It continues to be one of the major public health problems of our time, despite the many advances made against it in the last half century. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease. In an age when the medical profession is capable of immunizing the population against a wide variety of communicable diseases, no substance is considered so safe or so effective as to warrant its widespread use against the spread of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a chronic and recurrent disease. In an age when "miracle" remedies are facilitating the cure of illnesses which were once inevitably fatal, there is no "cure" for tuberculosis.
Subject Area
Medical imaging|Military studies|Public health|Social work
Recommended Citation
O'Grady, Ida Frances, "The Veteran on Chemotherapy: A Case Study of Significant Psychosocial Factors as Seen in Ten Post-Hospitalized Tubercular Patients at the Chest Clinic of the Veterans Administration Regional Office, New York City, 1955" (1957). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30509595.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30509595
