Name: Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970 (en Inglés)
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Author: Connolly, Cynthia A.
ISBN: 9780813569673

portada Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Cynthia A. Connolly

Editorial

Rutgers University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

200

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

Peso

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9780813569673

Categorías

Salud pública y medicina preventiva
Historia de la medicina
Enfermedades infectocontagiosas

Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970 (en Inglés)

Cynthia A. Connolly (Autor) · Rutgers University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970 (en Inglés)"

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.