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

by Cynthia A. Connolly, R.N., Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing and the history of medicine (Rutgers University Press) The author provides an analysis of public health and family welfare viewed through the institution of the tuberculosis preventorium of the early 20th century. This facility was intended to prevent TB in indigent children at risk for developing the disease or who came from families labeled as irresponsible. Connolly further explains how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape contemporary pediatric health care delivery and family policy in the United States.