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Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970

Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970

Connolly, Cynthia A.

Paperback

Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0813569672
ISBN13: 9780813569673
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Mar 14 2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 Progressive ideals in public health.

In this book, Cynthia A. Connolly provides a provocative analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This unique facility was intended to prevent TB in indigent children from families labeled irresponsible or at risk for developing the disease. Yet, it also held deeply rooted assumptions about class, race, and ethnicity. Connolly goes further to explain how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.

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