ABSTRACT
The early twentieth-century sanatorium for consumptives was a hybrid place with a peculiar genealogy. Recognisable as a classic disciplinary institution, the sanatorium emerged from ambiguous and multiple traditions of corrective, therapeutic and educational sites and practices of isolation: part hospital, part prison, part school, and in its variously classed public and private versions, part asylum or part health resort. Sanatoria were disciplinary institutions yet often voluntary; they were places for the isolation of the dangerous yet also for their instruction; they were highly policed but aiming to produce self-policing subjects; and they were places of both therapy and prevention. In this chapter I focus on sanatoria as interesting transitional sites between methods of preventive public health based on coerced spatial isolation of the dangerous, and methods based on self-governance and the instalment of civic responsibilities. 1
