What is it about?
Tuberculosis was a major health problem in New York in the early twentieth century. This paper examines the way Fannie Hurst used a short story to teach a wide audience about how to avoid the disease and how to treat it.
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Why is it important?
This article is the first to consider the importance of Fannie Hurst's story as a tool to educate the public about TB. As we come out of a pandemic, amid competing claims about truth and science, this article highlights the role short stories can play in giving health advice.
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I was really pleased to be part of this special issue on health and the short story, and to have my work feature alongside such interesting work.
Deborah Molloy
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This page is a summary of: Performative public health in Fannie Hurst’s ‘T.B.’ (1915), Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, October 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/fict_00060_1.
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