Simon Baruch : rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921

Title
  1. Simon Baruch : rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921 / Patricia Spain Ward.
Published by
  1. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994.
Author
  1. Ward, Patricia Spain.

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Description
  1. xiv, 399 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. History of American science and technology series
Uniform title
  1. History of American science and technology series
Subject
  1. Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921
  2. Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921
  3. Baruch, Simon 1840-1921
  4. Baruch, Simon
  5. 1800-1899
  6. Physicians > United States > Biography
  7. Medicine > Southern States > History > 19th century
  8. Balneology > United States > History
  9. Physicians
  10. physicians
  11. 44.01 history of medicine
  12. Balneology
  13. Medicine
  14. Biografie
  15. Baden (hygiëne)
  16. Medicine > United States > History
  17. Jewish physicians
  18. Physicians
  19. History, 19th Century
  20. Hydrotherapy > history
  21. Southern States
  22. United States
  23. South Carolina
  24. Virginia
Genre/Form
  1. collective biographies.
  2. Biographies.
  3. History.
  4. Biography
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-379) and index.