Saving Sickly Children

Description:

The 'preventorium', an institution designed to protect children from tuberculosis, emerged in the USA during the Progressive era. In this book, Cynthia Connolly explores how the institution reflected assumptions about class, race and ethnicity, and explains that its effects live on today in child health care and family policy.

subjects: Child,  Child, Institutionalized,  Children,  History,  History, 20th Century,  Hospitals,  Institutionalized Child,  Nursing,  Patient Isolation,  Prevention,  Prevention & control,  Tuberculosis,  Tuberculosis in children,  Tuberculosis, prevention,  Children, hospitals,  Children, united states,  Children, diseases,  United states, history, 20th century

Places: United States