18 juin 2024
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Forum Transregionale Studien, « Navigating Bureaucratic Hurdles: Tuberculosis and Healthcare Access in Republican Istanbul », TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, ID : 10.58079/11ufm
By Zehra Betül Atasoy Tuberculosis (TB), often referred to as consumption or phthisis, was one of the most dreaded diseases of the 19th and 20th centuries on a global scale. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the period on which this piece focuses, tuberculosis claimed a significant number of lives each year in Turkey.[1] The absence of a structured and centralized TB treatment and prevention system[2] left countless individuals grappling with the disease alone. However, one of the reasons for th...