Open AccessTuberculosis: the sanatorium season in the early 20th century
Author(s) -
Carlo Patriarca,
Giuseppe Bello,
Stefano Zannella,
Sergio Arturo Agati
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
pathologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.243
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1591-951X
pISSN - 0031-2983
DOI - 10.32074/1591-951x-333
Subject(s) - prerogative , pandemic , tuberculosis , isolation (microbiology) , covid-19 , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , history , demography , geography , disease , political science , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , biology , pathology , engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , electrical engineering , politics
The creation of hospitals providing specialist care is not a prerogative of our time. As the world wonders how to cope with new pandemics and the age-old problems of the transmission of infections and the isolation of the sick, while the COVID-19 pandemic has been raging, it might be worth glancing back at the period - just over a century ago - when sanatoriums were set up in Italy as part of the fight against consumption.