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Author Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne)

Title Saving sickly children : the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909-1970 / Cynthia A. Connolly
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Contents Child-saving in the United States -- Tuberculosis: a children's disease -- Founding the preventorium -- The preventorium goes nationwide -- Science and the preventorium -- Tuberculosis in the "world of tomorrow" -- Conclusion: saving children, yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Summary Known as "The Great Killer" and "The White Plague," few diseases influenced American life as much as tuberculosis. Sufferers migrated to mountain or desert climates believed to ameliorate symptoms. Architects designed homes with sleeping porches and verandas so sufferers could spend time in the open air. The disease even developed its own consumer culture complete with invalid beds, spittoons, sputum collection devices, and disinfectants. The "preventorium," an institution designed to protect children from the ravages of the disease, emerged in this era of Progres
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Tuberculosis in children -- United States -- Prevention -- History
Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- United States -- History
Children -- Hospitals -- United States -- History
Children.
Tuberculosis -- history
Child
Child, Institutionalized -- history
History, 20th Century
Patient Isolation -- history
Tuberculosis -- nursing
Tuberculosis -- prevention & control
children (people by age group)
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
MEDICAL -- History.
Children
Children -- Hospitals
Tuberculosis -- Hospitals
Tuberculosis in children -- Prevention
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813545943
0813545943
0813542677
9780813542676