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From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health. By R. Alton Lee. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xii, 233 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-275-99467-9.)
The first decades of the twentieth century saw profound changes in both the scientific bases and the institutional forms of the public health profession. The increasing hegemony of bacteriology gave new legitimacy to efforts by state and local governments to control disease; politicians and civic officials haltingly and unevenly assumed responsibility for building sanitary infrastructure and promoting healthful habits among the populace. From Snake Oil to Medicine tells the story of those changes through a biography of Samuel Crumbine, who served as the secretary of the Kansas board of health for two decades beginning in 1904. . . .
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