American Decades
The Compulsory Insurance Debate
"Report of the Reference Committee on Hygiene and Public Health"
Report
By: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Date: May 8, 1920
Source: "Report of the Reference Committee on Hygiene and Public Health." Journal of the American Medical Association 74, no. 19 (May 8, 1920): 1319.
"Report of the Committee on Medical Economics"
Report
By: The New York State Journal of Medicine
Date: June 1925
Source: "Report of the Committee on Medical Economics." The New York State Journal of Medicine 25, no. 17 (June 1925): 788.
About the Organizations: The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847 by Nathan Davis. It began publication of the The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1883. In the 1890s and into the twentieth century, the publication gained...
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1920's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- The Compulsory Insurance Debate
- Women in Science
- "Police Veto Halts Birth Control Talk; Town Hall in Tumult"
- The Care and Feeding of Children
- "The Kahn Test for Syphilis in the Public Health Laboratory"
- Insulin
- "Scarlet Fever"
- "Tularemia"
- Smallpox
- "Cancer Studies in Massachusetts"
- "The Wealthiest Nation in the World: Its Mothers and Children"
- "On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to Their Use in the Isolation of B. Influenzæ"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
