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Author Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne)

Title Saving sickly children [electronic resource] : the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909-1970 / Cynthia A. Connolly.

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

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 182 p. : ill.
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Tuberculosis in children -- United States -- Prevention -- History.
Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- United States -- History.
Children -- Hospitals -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813542676 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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