Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees

ISBN-13: 9781032603940 / Twarda / 2023 / 400 str.

John M. Harris Jr.

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Internist and clinician-historian John M. Harris Jr. does a masterful job illuminating Smith's under-appreciated story. Stephen Smith was a prominent and forward-thinking surgeon whose contributions to our field are noteworthy and innovative; however, Smith deserves even greater acclaim for his pioneering and influential leadership in the fields of public health and treatment of the mentally ill. This is an important, well-written narrative which weaves together the multiple facets of a unique individual and cements Smith's place in medical history.

Michael C. Trotter, MD, FACS, Greenville, MS, cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, Chair, Medical History Group, Mississippi State Medical Assn, member American College of Surgeons History and Archives Group

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).