Abstract
Generously illustrated and handsomely produced, Chasing the Cure successfully weaves together the examination of the devastating personal and social impacts of tuberculosis, New Mexico’s evolving reputation as a haven those who suffered from it, and the significance of that reputation in promoting the state’s social, economic, and political development between the 1880s and the 1940s. After a concise overview of the discovery of New Mexico by health seekers in the mid-nineteenth century, Nancy Lewis describes the appearance of the sanatorium concept, its earliest incarnations in New Mexico Territory, and its elaboration over time in the character of public and private institutions. Thereafter, Lewis focuses upon the rapid expansion of the health industry all across New Mexico in the early decades of the twentieth century. As she traces the establishment of sanatoria from Silver City to Albuquerque to Santa Fe, Lewis also illuminates the impact of private entrepreneurs, religious orders, physicians, and the federal government in the creation of a medical infrastructure in the state dedicated to the care of those they termed “consumptives” in the supposedly salubrious climate of New Mexico.
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