Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

by Jeanne E. Abrams

Book Overview

An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America

Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one's life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the founding fathers and their families...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479880574
• ISBN13: 9781479880577
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"