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From Snake Oil to Medicine
Pioneering Public Health
 R. Alton Lee

0-275-99467-8/978-0-275-99467-9

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By the turn of the Twentieth Century, the emergence of modern public health was in its pioneering state and Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health was on the cutting edge of this development.

Reviews:
-[M]eticulously documented chronicle of Samuel Crumbine's life. —Great Plains Research
-Lee laments that Crumbine, who was recognized by contemporaries as a visionary, is now largley forgotten. Lee's book aims to bring the Kansas doctor out of the shadows by highlighting his many contributions in the fight against disease, contaminants, ignorance, and quackery....Lee places Crumbine's career withing the larger context of progressives' efforts to reform public health at the turn of the century....How this largely forgotten Kansas doctor helped create this system is a fascinating story. —Kansas History
-The first decade of the twentieth century saw profound changes in both the scientific bases and the institutional forms of the public health profession....From Snake Oil to Medicine tells the story of those changes through a biography of Samuel Crumbine....The focus on Kansas is welcome. Most histories of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public health....have focused on the urban Northeast....Lee has a good eye for colorful details and telling anecdotes. The book offers many entertaining episodes that give texture to the work of officials. —Journal of American History
-R. Alton Lee has written a detailed account of the professional life of a pioneer in public health, Dr. Samuel J. Grumbine. Lee not only tells the story of a life's work but shows that the events Grumbine initiated and witnessed were the roots of public health and continue to give the field direction and meaning....Lee has given us far more than a story of a rural primary care physician who succeeded on larger platforms. Grumbine used his own experience as a rural practitioner to convince President Hoover to advocate federal support for local health units, raising public health to new importance at a pivotal time. —Journal of the American Medical Association
About the Author
R. Alton Lee is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Dakota. He taught American history for the last thirty years of his career, specializing in American labor and constitutional history. After retiring in 1996, he moved to Kansas where he has been researching Kansas history.
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