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Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1991 - Volume 30 - Numéro 1 - Pages 32-39
Tubercolisis and the mountains : the birth of a myth, Pierre Guillaume.
The quality of The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann's great novel, contributed subs- tantially to the idea that sanatoria should be located in the mountains for highest therapeutic efficacy. Mountain establishments never actually provided the majority of tubercolosis treatment centers. The myth took root, in spite of the obvious gap with reality, because of the connection established between the places of care for the wealthy and the mediocrity of the hospitals to which less comfortable patients were admitted. The mountain sanatorium was for many tubercolosis patients an impossible dream, the ideal place to which they could have escaped from the constraints and miseries of public hospitals. Because they were strictly defined medically and socially, the mountain sanatoria were a mirage for many sick people, a theme popularized by a certain type of mass literature.
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Pierre Guillaume

Tuberculose et montagne. Naissance d'un mythe

In: Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. N°30, avril-juin 1991. pp. 32-39.

Abstract

Tubercolisis and the mountains : the birth of a myth, Pierre Guillaume.

The quality of The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann's great novel, contributed subs- tantially to the idea that sanatoria should be

tubercolosis treatment centers. The myth took root, in spite of the obvious gap with reality, because of the connection established

between the places of care for the wealthy and the mediocrity of the hospitals to which less comfortable patients were admitted.

The mountain sanatorium was for many tubercolosis patients an impossible dream, the ideal place to which they could have

escaped from the constraints and miseries of public hospitals. Because they were strictly defined medically and socially, the

mountain sanatoria were a mirage for many sick people, a theme popularized by a certain type of mass literature.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Guillaume Pierre. Tuberculose et montagne. Naissance d'un mythe. In: Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. N°30, avril-juin 1991.

pp. 32-39.

doi : 10.3406/xxs.1991.2373

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/xxs_0294-1759_1991_num_30_1_2373

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