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Tuberculosis Bibliography
Modupe Labode Chief Historian
Colorado History NOW, April 2006

Abrams, Jeanne. Blazing the Tuberculosis Trail (Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1990).

Bates, Barbara.  Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938   (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, XXX).

Colorado Medical Journal.  “Sending Poor Consumptives West.”  Vol. 11, No. 12 (Dec. 1905): 456-57.
-----. “Sending Poor Consumptives West.” Vol. 12, No. 2 (Feb. 1906): 56.
-----. “Tent Life on the Plains of Colorado.”  Vol. 7, No. 5 (May 1901): 218-19.
-----. “A Vicious Ordinance.” Vol. 9, No. 7 (July 1903): 311-12.

Colorado Tuberculosis Association.  “Why Tuberculosis Persons Without Adequate Funds Should Not Leave Their Home States” (Denver: n.d.)  CHS, Stephen Hart Library,  Ephemera Collection, “Tuberculosis.”

Denver Post. “Victims of the White Plague Lose their Intellect.” (August 28, 1906): 5.

Gailbreath, Thomas Crawford.  Chasing the Cure in Colorado (Denver: 1907).

“Gates to give $900 million for tuberculosis fight.”  Retrieved March 15, 2006.  Available at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11055927/print/1/displaymode/1098/

Gayle, Addison Jr.  Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Garden City: Doubleday, 1971).

Giese, James Richard.  “Tuberculosis and the Growth of Drenver’s Eastern European Jewish Community: The Accommodation of an Immigrant Group to a medium-sized Western City, 1900-1920.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1979.

Journal of the Outdoor Life, Special Colorado Number, (Summer 1932).

Krainz, Thomas.  Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005).

Macmahon, Sandra Varney.  “Tuberculosis, The Navajos, and Western Healthcare Providers, 1920-1960,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2003.

McKay, Douglas R.  Asylum of the Gilded Pill (Denver: State Historical Society of Colorado, 1983).

McKay, Douglas R.  “A History of the Nordrach Ranch: Colorado’s First Sanatorium of the Open Air,” Colorado Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 3-4,(Summer/Fall 1979): 179-195.

Nobelprize.org.  “Robert Koch and Tuberculosis.” Retrieved on March 15, 2006.  Available at: http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/tuberculosis/readmore.html  

Ott, Katherine. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870 (Cambridge:    Harvard University Press, 1996).

Rothman, Sheila M.  Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social    Experience of Illness in American History (New York: Basic Books, 1994).

Shikes, Robert H. Rocky Mountain Medicine: Doctors, Drugs, and Disease in Early Colorado (Boulder: Johnson Books, 1986).

Stout, Cynthia Kay.  “A Consumptives’ Refuge: Colorado and Tuberculosis,” Ph.D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1997.

Tomes, Nancy.  The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life      (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).

Wieber, F.W. F.  “The History of the United States Naval Hospital, Fort Lyon, Colo., and the Activities of the Naval Medical Corps in the Develeopment of the Hospital for Sanatorium Purposes.”  U.S. Naval Medical Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 5 (November 1922): 745-757.

Woodland Park Sanatorium, (Colorado Springs; n.d.) CHS, Stephen Hart Library,  Ephemera Collection, “Tuberculosis.”

The Young Man of the Denver Young Men’s Christian Association.  “A Colorado Problem.” Vol. 9, No. 21 (Feb. 8, 1901): 95.
-----. “A Health Farm.” Vol. 8, No. 11 (May 11, 1900): 165-66.