John M. Harris Jr.

Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees (eBook, ePUB)

How Stephen Smith Changed New York

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823-1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003821342
• Artikelnr.: 69417988

Autorenporträt

John M. Harris Jr. is an internal medicine physician, medical executive, medical educator, and medical biographer living in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of Professionalizing Medicine: James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Framing a Hazy Portrait 1. Classrooms and Cholera 2. Big City
Careers 3. Archetypes 4. Sanitation Becomes Patriotic 5. Metropolitan
Health 6. Part-Time Sanitarian 7. New Professions 8. Leading Public Health
9. Fighting Germs 10. Public Health Politics 11. Bringing Data to Insanity
12. Lunacy Commissioner 13. State Insanity Care 14. A Non-Retirement 15.
The Progressive Era Begins 16. Turn of the Century Challenges 17.
Unfinished Business 18. Fighting Eugenics while Being Nestor 19. Famous at
Last 20. Leaving Messages