Sanitarians

John Duffy is a former president of the American Association for the History od Medicine and author of The Healers: A History of American Medicine; the two-volume works The Rudolph Mates History of Medicine in Louisiana and A History of Public Health in New York City (vol. 1, 1625-1866, vol. 2, 1866-1966); and a number of other books and articles on the history of public health and medicine.

"The Sanitarians is so well documented and astutely presented as to make it a definitive reference text on the subject of American public health." -- Matthew J. Kleinerman, JAMA. "A magisterial account of the American public health movement. Duffy is to be commended for the impressive job of research and interpretation the has done... It will be of great value to future generations of historians." -- Nancy Tomes, American Historical Review