Saving sickly children
Subtitle: the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909-1970
By: Cynthia A. Connolly.
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780813542676
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Child-saving in the United States; title: Tuberculosis: a children's disease; title: Founding the preventorium; title: The preventorium goes nationwide; title: Science and the preventorium; title: Tuberculosis in the "world of tomorrow"; title: Conclusion: saving children, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.