History of Public Health in Georgia, 1733-1950
Author : Thomas Franklin Abercrombie
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Public health
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Author : Thomas Franklin Abercrombie
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Public health
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Author : Thomas Franklin Abercrombie
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Public health
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Author : Robert Cumming Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820335568
Published in 1959, Robert Wilson's account of the development of the Georgia pharmacy system begins with the founding of the state and explains that the search for drugs was a main factor in the original colonization. As he traces the evolution of medicine, Wilson identifies the pioneering figures of pharmacy in Georgia, disease and drug problems that confronted the colony, self-diagnosis and home treatment, epidemics, and the advertising and sale of medicinal products. Wilson describes the struggles Georgia encountered, including the development of a State Board of Health, as it was created in 1875, disbanded in 1877, and resurrected twenty-five years later. He also highlights Georgia's many accomplishments, including granting a woman a pharmaceutical license in 1903.
Author : Kenneth Coleman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 082031269X
First published in 1977, A History of Georgia has become the standard history of the state. Documenting events from the earliest discoveries by the Spanish to the rapid changes the state has undergone with the civil rights era, the book gives broad coverage to the state's social, political, economic, and cultural history. This work details Georgia's development from past to present, including the early Cherokee land disputes, the state's secession from the Union, cotton's reign, Reconstruction, the Bourbon era, the effects of the New Deal, Martin Luther King, Jr., the fall of the county-unit system, and Jimmy Carter's election to the presidency. Also noted are the often-overlooked contributions of Indians, blacks, and women. Each imparting his own special knowledge and understanding of a particular period in the state's history, the authors bring into focus the personalities and events that made Georgia what it is today. For this new edition, available in paperback for the first time, A History of Georgia has been revised to bring the work up through the events of the 1980s. The bibliographies for each section and the appendixes have also been updated to include relevant scholarship from the last decade.
Author : Edward H. Beardsley
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 1990
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780870496356
A History of Neglect examines the environmental, political, and economic forces that contributed to the poor health and substandard medical care of southern blacks and mill workers in this century. Edward H. Beardsley seeks to discover the social basis of ill health for these two populations in relation to larger developments like urban migration, race and class prejudice, and the growth of the textile industry.
Author : C. Vann Woodward
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1981-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807158216
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Author : John Duffy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Cholera
ISBN : 9780252062766
Aided by an extensive range of photographs and illustrations, the author shows how the various properties of sand and its location in the earths crust are diagnostic clues to understanding the dynamics of the earth's surface. The evolution of public health from a field that sought only to limit the spread of acute communicable diseases to one who's goals include health maintenance, wellness, and environmental conditions--and how this evolution fits into the framework of American social, political, and economic developments. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gerald Lee Cates
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Medicine
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Author : John H. Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813188423
The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878—a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 million. The full scale of the epidemic and the tentative, troubled southern response to it are for the first time fully examined by John Ellis in this new book. At the national level, southern congressional leaders fought to establish a strong federal health agency, but they were defeated by the young American Public Health Association, which defended states' rights. Local responses and results were mixed. In New Orleans, business and professional men, reacting to the denunciation of the city as the nation's pesthole, organized in 1879 to improve drainage, garbage disposal, and water supplies through voluntary subscription. Their achievements were of necessity modest. In Memphis—the city hardest hit by the epidemic—a new municipal government in 1879 helped form the first regional health organization and during the 1880s led the nation in sanitary improvements. In Atlanta, though it largely escaped the epidemic, the Constitution and some citizens called for health reform. Ironically their voices were drowned out by ritual invocation of local health mythology and by unabashed exploitation of the stigma of pestilence attached to New Orleans and Memphis. By 1890 Atlanta rivaled Charleston and Richmond for primacy in black mortality rates. That the public health movement met with only limited success Ellis attributes to the prevailing atmosphere of opportunistic greed, overwhelming debt, economic instability, and inordinate political corruption. But the effort to combat a terrifying disease not fully understood did eventually produce changes and the vastly improved health systems of today.
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Georgia
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