Dr. Charles David Spivak
Subtitle: a Jewish immigrant and the American tuberculosis movement
By: Jeanne E. Abrams.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780870819414
Subjects: Spivak, C. D. -- 1861-1927; Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.); Jewish physicians -- United States -- Biography; Jews, Russian -- United States -- Biography; Tuberculosis -- United States -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Out of Russia; title: The Philadelphia story; title: Heading west to "chase the cure"; title: The genesis of the JCRS : creating a new type of tb institution; title: Becoming a westerner; title: Overseas mission to the European front and the final years; title: Conclusion : the Spivak legacy.