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- Title
Under the Shadow of the Tubercle: The Work of Duncan Turner.
- Authors
Le Get, Rebecca
- Abstract
Doctor Duncan Turner was a Melbourne-based physician with a speciality in chest diseases, including tuberculosis. Active from the 1880s to the 1910s, he had a prominent position in Victoria's medical fraternity. He is primarily remembered as an example of the persistence of contagionist-theory denialism in Australia during this period. Such characterisation grossly simplifies his nuanced views and the rationale behind them. Turner held legitimate concerns regarding the social stigma faced by sufferers of tuberculosis, and sought to promote the importance of a healthy environment and climate in preventing chest diseases. Turner's contribution to medicine should therefore be re-examined, as an example of an individual contesting the discrimination experienced by people with chronic conditions and in need of care.
- Subjects
TURNER, Duncan; PHYSICIANS; TUBERCULOSIS treatment; SOCIAL stigma; CHEST diseases; WEIGHT loss
- Publication
Health & History: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
1442-1771
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5401/healthhist.20.1.0072