John Duffy is a former president of the American Association
for the History od Medicine and author of The Healers: A History of
American Medicine; the two-volume works The Rudolph Mates History
of Medicine in Louisiana and A History of Public Health in New York
City (vol. 1, 1625-1866, vol. 2, 1866-1966); and a number of other
books and articles on the history of public health and
medicine.
"The Sanitarians is so well documented and astutely presented as to make it a definitive reference text on the subject of American public health." -- Matthew J. Kleinerman, JAMA. "A magisterial account of the American public health movement. Duffy is to be commended for the impressive job of research and interpretation the has done... It will be of great value to future generations of historians." -- Nancy Tomes, American Historical Review
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