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John Ettling (Author)

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March 23, 2000
This book chronicles the formation and five-year history of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease and its fight against the debilitating parasite, the germ of laziness, that, by the early years of the twentieth century, afflicted nearly 40 percent of our Southern population. The Sanitary Commission was not John D. Rockefellers first philanthropic venture, and certainly not his most ambitious; it was, however, one of his more interesting creations, later becoming the prototype for the Rockefeller Foundations early public health programs around the world. Ettling skillfully places this medical concern in the context of the history of public health and education and against the backdrop of American reform in the progressive years.

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lone evangelist, farm demonstration program, hookworm work, hookworm doctors, hookworm sufferers, hookworm victims, hookworm disease, hookworm campaign, dispensary work, sanitary privy, hookworm infection
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Sanitary Commission, New York, United States, Man's Medicine, General Education Board, North Carolina, God's Money, Standard Oil, Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Commission, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Henceforth Thy Field Is the World, Wickliffe Rose, Making the Idea Fashionable, The Days of Galilee, The Scientist, Charles Wardell Stiles, Civil War, Public Health Service, Johns Hopkins, Marion County, Southern Education Board, Department of Agriculture, Rockefeller Institute
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