| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| 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. |
| Summary |
Known as "The Great Killer" and "The White Plague," few diseases influenced American life as much as tuberculosis. Sufferers migrated to mountain or desert climates believed to ameliorate symptoms. Architects designed homes with sleeping porches and verandas so sufferers could spend time in the open air. The disease even developed its own consumer culture complete with invalid beds, spittoons, sputum collection devices, and disinfectants. The "preventorium," an institution designed to protect children from the ravages of the disease, emerged in this era of Progres. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tuberculosis in children -- United States -- Prevention -- History.
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Tuberculosis in children. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- United States -- History.
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Tuberculosis -- Hospitals. |
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Children -- Hospitals -- United States -- History.
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Children -- Hospitals. |
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Tuberculosis -- history. |
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Child. |
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Child, Institutionalized -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Patient Isolation -- history. |
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Tuberculosis -- nursing. |
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Tuberculosis -- prevention & control. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Connolly, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Anne). Saving sickly children. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813542676 0813542677 (DLC) 2007026869 (OCoLC)152580844 |
| ISBN |
9780813545943 (electronic book) |
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0813545943 (electronic book) |
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0813542677 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813542676 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813542676 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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