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Goldberger's War

The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader

By: Alan M. Kraut

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Goldberger's War

The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader

By: Alan M. Kraut

For fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Alan M. Kraut's Goldberg's War tells the story of one doctor's courageous journey to cure deadly diseases and epidemics. Goldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew who trained as a doctor at Bellevue, became a young recruit to the federal government's health service, and ended an American plague. He did so by defying conventional wisdom, experimenting on humans, and telling the South precisely what it didn't want to hear. Kraut shows how Dr. Goldberger's life became, quite literally, the stuff of legends. On the front lines of the major public-health battles of the early 20th-century, he fought the epidemics that were then routinely sweeping the nation--typhoid, yellow fever, and the measles. After successfully confronting (and often contracting) the infectious diseases of his day, in 1914 he was assigned the mystery of pellagra, a disease whose cause and cure had eluded the world for centuries and was then afflicting tens of thousands of Americans every year, particularly in the emerging "New South." “Engrossing story of an American medical hero.” —The New England Journal of Medicine

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374606323

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9780374606329

Covenant of Care

Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America

By: Alan M. Kraut,Deborah A. Kraut

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Covenant of Care

Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America

By: Alan M. Kraut,Deborah A. Kraut

Trouble in the Beth Israel Hospital Association"--The formative years -- From little house on the hill to modern institution -- A modern hospital surviving depression and war -- Medicine at the Beth, 1928-1947 -- The modern institution at midcentury -- Medical research at midcentury -- Redefining the Beth's community -- The changing shape of health care.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813539102

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9780813539102

American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945

By: Richard Bretman,Alan M. Kraut

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American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945

By: Richard Bretman,Alan M. Kraut

How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration in particular, Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut seek the answer in a detailed analysis of American political realities and bureaucratic processes. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the authors describe and analyze American immigration policy as well as rescue and relief efforts directed toward European Jewry between 1933 and 1945. They contend that U.S. policy was the product of preexisting restrictive immigration laws; an entrenched State Department bureaucracy committed to a narrow defense of American interests; public opposition to any increase in immigration; and the reluctance of Franklin D. Roosevelt to accept the political risks of humanitarian measures to benefit the European Jews. The authors find that the bureaucrats who made and implemented refugee policy were motivated by institutional priorities and reluctance to take risks, rather than by moral or humanitarian concerns.

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Indiana University Press

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0253304156

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9780253304155

Silent Travelers

Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace

By: Alan M. Kraut

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Silent Travelers

Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace

By: Alan M. Kraut

Traces the American tradition of suspicion of the unassimilated, from the cholera outbreak of the 1830s through the great waves of immigration that began in the 1890s, to the recent past, when the erroneous association of Haitians with the AIDS virus brought widespread panic and discrimination. Kraut (history, American U.) found that new immigrant populations--made up of impoverished laborers living in urban America's least sanitary conditions--have been victims of illness rather than its progenitors, yet the medical establishment has often blamed epidemics on immigrants' traditions, ethnic habits, or genetic heritage. Originally published in hardcover by Basic Books in 1994. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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JHU Press

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0801850967

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Silent Travelers

Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace

By: Alan M. Kraut

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Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace

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Goldberger's War

The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader

By: Alan M. Kraut

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The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader

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From Arrival to Incorporation

Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era

By: Elliott Barkan,Hasia Diner,Alan M. Kraut

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From Arrival to Incorporation

Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era

By: Elliott Barkan,Hasia Diner,Alan M. Kraut

The United States is once again in the midst of a peak period of immigration. By 2005, more than 35 million legal and illegal migrants were present in the United States. At different rates and with differing degrees of difficulty, a great many will be incorporated into American society and culture. Leading immigration experts in history, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science here offer multiethnic and multidisciplinary perspectives on the challenges confronting immigrants adapting to a new society. How will these recent arrivals become Americans? Does the journey to the U.S. demand abandoning the past? How is the United States changing even as it requires change from those who come here? Broad thematic essays are coupled with case studies and concluding essays analyzing contemporary issues facing Muslim newcomers in the wake of 9/11. Together, they offer a vibrant portrait of America&#’s new populations today. Contributors: Anny Bakalian, Elliott Barkan, Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Caroline Brettell, Barry R. Chiswick, Hasia Diner, Roland L. Guyotte, Gary Gerstle, David W. Haines, Alan M. Kraut, Xiyuan Li, Timothy J. Meagher, Paul Miller, Barbara M. Posadas, Paul Spickard, Roger Waldinger, Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield, and Min Zhou.

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NYU Press

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0814791204

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9780814791202

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