On Whose Shoulders We Stand: Key Health Challenges in NM History, and How Nurses Rose to Meet Them

Tuberculosis and NM Statehood From 1880 through the 1940’s, TB remained a significant driver of the development of the early healthcare infrastructure in NM. For decades it remained the leading cause of death nationally, and from 1912 through the 1940s NM had the highest rate of TB in the nation. Considered an incurable disease until...