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- Title
High and Dry in New Mexico: TUBERCULOSIS AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH.
- Authors
Lewis, Nancy Owen
- Abstract
The article discusses the migration of health seekers to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940, in the hope for a cure from tuberculosis (TB). An overview of the impact that the health seekers had on the native New Mexican Hispanic and Indian populations and on the development of New Mexico's medical profession is provided. The health policy of New Mexican government, including it's inability to acquire data on the TB death rate among Mexicans in 1915 and the creation of a New Mexican Department of Health in 1919, is discussed. The article also discusses physicians' belief that the dry climate of New Mexico would be beneficial for those with TB.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NEW Mexico; TUBERCULOSIS patients; MEDICINE; HEALTH policy; INTERNAL migration; EFFECT of climate on human beings; NEW Mexico state history, 1848-; NEW Mexico state politics &; government, 1848-1950; HISTORY; UNITED States history; HISTORY of medicine
- Publication
New Mexico Historical Review, 2012, Vol 87, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0028-6206
- Publication type
Article