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Article: Simon Baruch: Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921.
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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In the labor of a lifetime, Patricia Spain Ward has written a delightful biography of an iconoclastic family physician and public health reformer, Simon Baruch. Baruch contributed little to the advance of either medicine or public health, but by placing his wide-ranging professional activities firmly in the context of his time, Ward reveals much about disease treatment and prevention during the period from 1860 to 1920. This alone makes it a tale well worth telling, especially to modern readers unfamiliar with how dramatically medicine and public health have changed since 1920.
Baruch was a young Polish Jew who immigrated to Camden, South Carolina, in the 1850s with ...