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Pennsylvania Pioneers Against Tuberculosis - By Esther Gaskins Price. New York: National Tuberculosis Association, 1952. 294 pp. Illus. Price, $5.00. This volume is an important contribution to the history of public health in the United States. It is one of a series of studies sponsored by the Committee on Archives of the National Tuberculosis Association on the growth and development of the tuberculosis control movement. Esther Gaskins Price focuses on Philadelphia between 1885 and 1910, but sets the story within the larger framework of the national movement out of which grew the National Tuberculosis Association. Through the pages of this fascinating book pass many notable figures-the Bowditches, Leonard Pearson, Jacob and Solomon SolisCohen, and many others. Outstanding, however, is Lawrence F. Flick, who led the fight for tuberculosis control. It was Flick who won out over the opposition of the organized medical profession and gained the financial support for the establishment of the Henry opposition to compulsorv sickness insurance. Still another point of interest is the significant role played by labor through its leaders and organizations.. The volume is based on extensive research, and provides exciting, reading. It gives a dramatic account of an im-portant public health program,
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: Nov 1, 1952
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