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"The Sanitarians is so well documented and astutely presented as to make it a definitive reference text on the subject of American public health." -- Matthew J. Kleinerman, JAMA. "A magisterial account of the American public health movement. Duffy is to be commended for the impressive job of research and interpretation the has done... It will be of great value to future generations of historians." -- Nancy Tomes, American Historical Review
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This review is from: The Sanitarians: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH (Paperback)
This history of American Public Health chronicles health perspectives of scavengers and public health workers to physicians and businessmen. It follows medicine as it evolved from bleeding victims and "miasmas" to technologically advanced medicine such as vaccines and x-rays. With a very good account of the history of infectious disease (yellow fever, and cholera), it aptly avoids the downfall of Whig history in assigning the fundamental reasons for the health initiatives. For a complete and concise history of American Public Health since the founding of the United States, read this book! It is an easy read for those who want general information, but is detailed enough (with great bibliographical information) for those interested in exploring any one aspect of the these issues further.
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The Sanitation Movement in 18th, 19th, and 20th century American Public Health is described in detail. Some of the independent movements are left out. It is a long read which is boring and a little tedious at times. Overall an above average book on the subject matter describing the Sanitarians.
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In the history of American colonial health a startling contrast exists between the descriptions of the early colonial environment and the stark picture, once the colonies were established, of recurrent pestilential epidemics and omnipresent endemic diseases. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
school health movement, national quarantine system, great killer diseases, state health boards, sanitary program, antivaccination movement, nuisance industries, county health units, overflowing privies, sanitary movement, municipal health departments, baby stations, public health history, sanitary revolution, sanitary conventions, sanitary affairs, enteric disorders, swill milk, public health leaders, bacteriological revolution, local health boards, national health agency, health train, infected ports, milk stations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, New Orleans, World War, Marine Hospital Service, Civil War, John Duffy, San Francisco, Mississippi Valley, New England, New Jersey, Rockefeller Foundation, South Carolina, North Carolina, Red Cross, Elisha Harris, New Mexico, Baton Rouge, West Indies, New Deal, Sheppard Towner Act, Social Security Act, Stephen Smith, Children's Bureau, Haven Emerson New!
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In the history of American colonial health a startling contrast exists between the descriptions of the early colonial environment and the stark picture, once the colonies were established, of recurrent pestilential epidemics and omnipresent endemic diseases. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
school health movement, national quarantine system, great killer diseases, state health boards, sanitary program, antivaccination movement, nuisance industries, county health units, overflowing privies, sanitary movement, municipal health departments, baby stations, public health history, sanitary revolution, sanitary conventions, sanitary affairs, enteric disorders, swill milk, public health leaders, bacteriological revolution, local health boards, national health agency, health train, infected ports, milk stations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, New Orleans, World War, Marine Hospital Service, Civil War, John Duffy, San Francisco, Mississippi Valley, New England, New Jersey, Rockefeller Foundation, South Carolina, North Carolina, Red Cross, Elisha Harris, New Mexico, Baton Rouge, West Indies, New Deal, Sheppard Towner Act, Social Security Act, Stephen Smith, Children's Bureau, Haven Emerson New!
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- Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana, The by John Duffy on 8 pages
- Natural History by Maureen Howard on 7 pages
- American Medicine and the Public Interest: Updated Edition with a New Introduction by Rosemary Stevens on 6 pages
- Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century by Harry F. Dowling on page 291, page 310, and Back Matter
- American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science by William G. Rothstein on page 203, and Back Matter
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- The People's Health: Public Health in Australia, 1788-1950 [Part of two volume set] (Contributions in Medical Studies) by Milton J. Lewis on page 111, page 274, and Back Matter
- Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive-Era New York City by Daniel Burnstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor by Daniel E. Bender in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism by Jeanne Guillemin on page 211, and page 235
- Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster by Alan Derickson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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