American Decades
"The Job Ahead"
Magazine article
By: Thomas Parran
Date: July 1941
Source: Parran, Thomas. "The Job Ahead." Survey Graphic, July 1941. Available at the New Deal Network online at http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/sg41396.htm; website home page at http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed April 18, 2003).
About the Author: Thomas Parran (1892–1968) was surgeon general during most of President Franklin Roosevelt's administration (1933–1945). Known for his active promotion of many public health initiatives, Parran was behind campaigns against venereal disease, malnutrition, and other conditions.
Introduction
In the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s, public health officials were well aware that many Americans suffered the lingering effects of malnutrition (not eating a balanced...
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1940's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- "The Lessons of the Selective Service"
- "The Job Ahead"
- "The Diagnostic Value of Vaginal Smears in Carcinoma of the Uterus"
- Penicillin
- "Cut Excess Weight, Women Are Urged"
- "America Is Learning What to Eat"
- "Demerol, Newly Marketed as a Synthetic Substitute For Morphine, Ranks With Sulfa Drugs and Penicillin"
- "Tell 37-Year Rise in Better Eating"
- Hill-Burton Act
- The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- "Text of Truman Plea for Public Health Program"
- "Drug Aiding Fight on Tuberculosis"
- State Mental Hospitals
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
- "27,658 Polio Cases Listed Last Year"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
