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Anonymous Bodies? The Process of Disciplination in Tuberculosis Sanatoriums

Autoři: Caitlín Rábová Šárka

Rok: 2019

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Anonymous Bodies? The Process of Disciplination in Tuberculosis Sanatoriums	Tuberculosis used to be one of the most common and feared diseases in society during the 19th and 20th century; millions of people around the world were dying of it, regardless of sex, age and social background. Nevertheless, the interest in this disease was rather marginal among the professional public during the first half of the 19th century, which was caused by the majority's belief in its direct heredity. This view was refuted by Robert Koch, who discovered the bacillus responsible for transmission in 1882 and then declared tuberculosis to be an infectious disease. His discovery was a major impulse for far-reaching changes that resulted in the sanitization of public and private space and, above all, in the institutionalization of professional care. During the first half of the 20th century, there was a rise of tuberculosis sanatoriums in many countries. These allowed isolating the infected individuals for long periods of time and teaching them how to care for personal hygiene. Since they held hundreds of patients at a time, their stay required strict organization and discipline. For this purpose, so-called house rules were created. Every patient was familiarised with these rules and had to follow them under the threat of punishment. The contribution will focus on the analysis of these house orders, whereby the main goal is to explore the target of the rules’ normative and whether the orders differed for adult and children patients or if they were identical so that their goal was to create an ideal tuberculosis patient. Other important question is how the patients themselves viewed the disciplinary techniques applied by doctors and trained staff, in other words, how much they adopted them and to what extent these techniques became an integral part of them.	Tuberculosis; sanatoriums; house rules; patients; doctors; diseases; first half of the twentieth century