Simon Baruch : rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921
- Title
- Simon Baruch : rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921 / Patricia Spain Ward.
- Published by
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 399 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This biography recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation's best-known physicians by the turn of the century."--BOOK JACKET. "Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the Civil War, the adventures of a Confederate surgeon, and the difficulties of a practitioner in Reconstruction South Carolina. Simon Baruch's physician's registers and his correspondence with colleagues afford the reader an immediate sense of the therapeutic dilemmas facing physicians and patients of his era."--BOOK JACKET. "Baruch's experiences while establishing himself in New York City after 1881 reflect the challenges facing those trying to break into what was then the nation's medical capital - as well as that city's rich opportunities and heady intellectual atmosphere. His energetic campaign for free public baths illustrates one of the most colorful chapters of American social history, as immigrants flooded our cities at the turn of the century. As medical editor of the New York Sun from 1912 to 1918, Baruch touched on most of the health concerns of that period and a few - such as handgun control - that persist to this day."--Jacket.
- Series statement
- History of American science and technology series
- Uniform title
- History of American science and technology series
- Subject
- Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921
- Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921
- Baruch, Simon 1840-1921
- Baruch, Simon
- 1800-1899
- Physicians > United States > Biography
- Medicine > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Balneology > United States > History
- Physicians
- physicians
- 44.01 history of medicine
- Balneology
- Medicine
- Biografie
- Baden (hygiëne)
- Medicine > United States > History
- Jewish physicians
- Physicians
- History, 19th Century
- Hydrotherapy > history
- Southern States
- United States
- South Carolina
- Virginia
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Biography
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-379) and index.