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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.

Imprint

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	362.196995 C762s 2008	---	Available

Description	xiii, 182 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Critical issues in health and medicine
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject	Tuberculosis in children -- United States -- Prevention -- History.
	Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- United States -- History.
	Children -- Hospitals -- United States -- History.
	Tuberculosis -- history -- United States.
	Child -- United States.
	Child, Institutionalized -- history -- United States.
	History, 20th Century -- United States.
	Patient Isolation -- history -- United States.
	Tuberculosis -- nursing -- United States.
	Tuberculosis -- prevention & control -- United States.
ISBN	0813542677 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780813542676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No.	NLM 101310458
	AU@ 000041888732