The tuberculosis movement : a public health campaign in the progressive era /

In 1957, Richard H. Shryock published a very fine history of the National Tuberculosis Association (National Tuberculosis Association, 1904-1954: A Study of the Voluntary Health Movement in the United States). Teller's study builds on Shryock's pioneering study, describing and analyzing the crusade against tuberculosis in the US from the last decades of the 19th century to 1917, when it had matured into what the author calls "a modern health campaign." Based on an extensive reading of primary and secondary sources, including manuscript materials, Teller provides a cogent account of a most important aspect of the history of American public health. This book is highly recommended for collections related to urban history, the history of medicine and public health, and American social history; the author is to be congratulated on a job well done. -M. Kaufman, Westfield State College