Saving sickly children : the tuberculosis preventorium in American life, 1909-1970 /
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 sp...
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2008.
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| Saila: | Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj71k |
Aurkibidea:
- 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.