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vii List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Child-saving in the United States 1 Chapter 2 Tuberculosis: A Children’s Disease 26 Chapter 3 Founding the Preventorium 48 Chapter 4 The Preventorium Goes Nationwide 76 Chapter 5 Science and the Preventorium 96 Chapter 6 Tuberculosis in the “World of Tomorrow” 112 Conclusion: Saving Children: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 124 Notes 133 Index 169 Contents ...

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