Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Convinced that the outdoor life was better for their health, young men with tuberculosis in the nineteenth century interrupted their college studies and careers to go to sea or to settle in the West, in the process shaping communities in Colorado, Arizona, and California. Women, anticipating the worst, raised their children to be welcomed as orphans in other people's homes. In the twentieth century, both men and women entered sanatoriums, sacrificing autonomy for the prospect of a cure.. }
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- catalog description "Convinced that the outdoor life was better for their health, young men with tuberculosis in the nineteenth century interrupted their college studies and careers to go to sea or to settle in the West, in the process shaping communities in Colorado, Arizona, and California. Women, anticipating the worst, raised their children to be welcomed as orphans in other people's homes. In the twentieth century, both men and women entered sanatoriums, sacrificing autonomy for the prospect of a cure.".