"Under the Stimulus of Great Epidemics": Reformers, Epidemics, and the Rise of State Level Public Health in Pennsylvania, 1872–1905
Though Pennsylvania was a prosperous industrial state and home to a great many medical institutions, it was among the last to constitute state-level public health organs. Pennsylvania's first public health organization, the Board of Health, was founded in 1885 and was ineffectual. Its second pu...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Pennsylvania History. - Pennsylvania State University Press, 1934. - 84(2017), 2, Seite 214-238 |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Pennsylvania History |
| Schlagworte: | Pennsylvania Board of Health Pennsylvania Department of Health public health epidemics typhoid smallpox Progressive Era history of medicine Health sciences Law mehr... |