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Saving sickly children : the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909-1970

Title: Saving sickly children : the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909-1970 / Cynthia A. Connolly.
Author: Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne)
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

xiii, 182 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this book, Cynthia A. Connolly provides an analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This unique facility was intended to prevent TB in indigent children from families labeled irresponsible or at risk from developing the disease. Yet, it also held deeply rooted assumptions about class, race, and ethnicity. Connolly goes further to explain how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Critical issues in health and medicine

Uniform Title

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Child-saving in the United States -- Ch. 2. Tuberculosis : a children's disease -- Ch. 3. Founding the preventorium -- Ch. 4. The preventorium goes nationwide -- Ch. 5. Science and the preventorium -- Ch. 6. Tuberculosis in the "world of tomorrow" -- Conclusion. Saving children : yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

ISBN

9780813542676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813542677 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007026869

OCLC

ocn152580844
152580844
SCSB-5408249

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Columbia University Libraries