The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement: A Historical Dictionary
- ISBN-10
- 0275979326
- ISBN-13
- 9780275979324
- Category
- Reference
- Pages
- 419
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Ruth Clifford Engs
Description
Entries cover the important figures, events, legislation, crusades, and terms of the health reform movement of the years before the Progressive Era through the 1920s.
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