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Surgeon General's Warning: How Politics Crippled the Nation's Doctor
By Stobbe, Mike
- ISBN
- 9780520272293 9780520958395
- Publisher
- Univ. of California
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Library Journal
Starred Review on June 1, 2014 | Science and Technology
Associated Press national medical correspondent Stobbe's remarkably enjoyable and fast-moving history describes the rise to prominence of the office of the surgeon general, which reached its peak in the 1920s–1930s, gradually declined in midcentury, and went on to lose much of its luster to other nationally prominent physicians. Biographical sketches serve to differentiate each of the last 18 surgeons general from the 19th century through the p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
