Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees - How Stephen Smith Changed New York

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823-1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents.

List of contents

Introduction: Framing a Hazy Portrait 1. Classrooms and Cholera 2. Big City Careers 3. Archetypes 4. Sanitation Becomes Patriotic 5. Metropolitan Health 6. Part-Time Sanitarian 7. New Professions 8. Leading Public Health 9. Fighting Germs 10. Public Health Politics 11. Bringing Data to Insanity 12. Lunacy Commissioner 13. State Insanity Care 14. A Non-Retirement 15. The Progressive Era Begins 16. Turn of the Century Challenges 17. Unfinished Business 18. Fighting Eugenics while Being Nestor 19. Famous at Last 20. Leaving Messages

About the author

John M. Harris Jr. is an internal medicine physician, medical executive, medical educator, and medical biographer living in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of Professionalizing Medicine: James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care (2019).

Product details

• Authors: John M. Harris Jr.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032603957
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260395-7
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, New York City, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)