Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees : How Stephen Smith Changed New York (Paperback)

Introduction: Framing a Hazy Portrait? 1. Classrooms and Cholera? 2. Big City Careers? 3. Archetypes? 4. Sanitation Becomes Patriotic? 5. Metropolitan Health? 6. Part-Time Sanitarian? 7. New Professions? 8. Leading Public Health? 9. Fighting Germs? 10. Public Health Politics? 11. Bringing Data to Insanity? 12. Lunacy Commissioner? 13. State Insanity Care? 14. A Non-Retirement? 15. The Progressive Era Begins? 16. Turn of the Century Challenges? 17. Unfinished Business? 18. Fighting Eugenics while Being Nestor? 19. Famous at Last? 20. Leaving Messages