From Snake Oil to Medicine - Pioneering Public Health (Hardcover)

Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health, diseases festering in water sources, food, and the common towel at the turn of the 20th century would have caused thousands of deaths in the United States and beyond. Crumbine and his associates paved the way to better treatment of tuberculosis and other common diseases. This well-written account leads the reader down a path of crucial medical advancements. Samuel J. Crumbine was a medical educator without peer, who used his department of health to disseminate the latest developments he and others throughout the world were achieving in public health. He found it necessary to propagandize a skeptical and sometimes hostile public to accept the germ theory, the idea that invisible microbes were making them ill and that they should clean up their environment and their food and water sources. He had to convince the public to rely on modern medicine, not snake oil and other miracle cures for a healthy living. R. Alton Lee's historical account might offer insight in today's threat of Bird Flu and other recent medical threats for any reader.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2007
First published:	March 2007
Authors:	R.Alton Lee
Dimensions:	243 x 165 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-275-99467-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-275-99467-8
Barcode:	9780275994679

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