| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Michael R. Grey. New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University PRess. 1999. Pp. xvii, 238. $42.50.

When most Americans (indeed most historians) think of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) they envision the haunting photographs that Walker Evans, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, and others took documenting the debilitating poverty in Depression-era rural America. Michael R. Grey provides the first historical inquiry into another important FSA program: rural health. Basing his study almost entirely on agency records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories (because of the virtual absence of secondary literature), Grey demonstrates that the FSA initiatives are not only critical to a full understanding of the New Deal but also fill important lacunae in the historical literature about the effort to achieve national health insurance in the twentieth century. . . .

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