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

The 'preventorium', an institution designed to protect children from tuberculosis, emerged in the USA during the Progressive era. In this book, Cynthia Connolly explores how the institution reflected assumptions about class, race and ethnicity, and explains that its effects live on today i...

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1. Verfasser: Connolly, Cynthia A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers Univ. Press 2008
Schriftenreihe:Critical issues in health and medicine
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Zusammenfassung:The 'preventorium', an institution designed to protect children from tuberculosis, emerged in the USA during the Progressive era. In this book, Cynthia Connolly explores how the institution reflected assumptions about class, race and ethnicity, and explains that its effects live on today in child health care and family policy.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:xiii, 182 S. Ill. 24 cm

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