出版社：Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget
摘要：Traditionally, the turning point in the fight against tuberculosisis perceived as Robert Koch’s description of the bacterium in 1882.In Norway, the legislation from 1900 has been interpreted as a breakthrough. However,how was tuberculosis understood by doctors in Kristiania in thelatter half of the 19th century? As it appears in NorskMagazin for Lægevidenskaben – the country's most importantmedical journal – the term was far from unambiguous and precise.During the period 1840-1900, three forms of understanding dominate:tuberculosis as hereditary, something which arose spontaneouslyfrom imbalance or as a disease mediated through infection. Throughoutthe period, tuberculosis was absent in the journal's infectiousdisease tables. Furthermore, the effective fight against the diseasemet resistance. Opposition expressed itself through liberal arguments:measures were terrorism and threats to personal freedom. The oppositionto fighting tuberculosis was also based on scepticism towards bacteriaas pathogens. There are grounds for claiming that “tuberculosis”did not exist in Kristiania – a parallel to Bruno Latour’s pointingout that Pharaoh Ramses could not have had tuberculosis, despitethe fact that French doctors recently have detected the diseasein his mummy. The Egyptians did not know tuberculosis 3,000 yearsago.
其他关键词：Tuberculosis; public health history; epidemics; 19th century history; health legislation; medical history; bacteriology; miasmatic conceptions; humoral pathology; Kristiania
