Celia Miralles Buil

University of Strasbourg | UNISTRA

« Consumption », a major concern of the late 19th century, was still a disease associated with misery in the collective imagination of the early 20th century. The present dissertation focuses on consumption in the Barcelonian social space of the 1930s: it seeks to circumscribe the multiple meanings of tuberculosis which emerge from medical discours...

After Koch discovery in 1882, the fight against tuberculosis in Europe only focused on killing the germ with the motto “better safe than sorry”. In that perspective, the city became the main receptacle for the germ and, in order to eradicate the disease, it was compulsory to control the space in which it was located. In practical terms, the primary...

The following paper tries to understand the link between architecture and health in the Fight against tuberculosis in Barcelona in the 1930’s. The architecture of healthcare institutions reflects the state of knowledge about health and hygiene at a certain point, but then it may also appeared as a practical solution to resolve the problem of the di...

Since the 19th century, many studies have tried to understand whether or not the urban overcrowding was an aggravating or triggering factor of tuberculosis. Using the example of Spain and Barcelona as a case study, this article aims to revisit this causal link by connecting the medical speeches about the disease and the patient’s life courses in th...