The preventorium a memoir
"Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi S...
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University Press of Mississippi
2022
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Schriftenreihe: | Cultures of childhood
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Foreword by Cynthia A. Connolly
- Prologue
- Preventorium history Endless dream
- Arrival
- One child among many
- My only friend
- Fear and ecstasy in the night
- The crux of the matter
- Unkown punishment
- School days
- The most girl part of me: A brief return home
- Holiday
- Found memories: Photos and newspaper articles
- What I never told anyone
- All the children gather
- Homecoming
- A complicated and fierce woman
- Lasting impressions
- Epilogue: A last wish
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography