Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia
by Newsholme, Arthur; Kingsbury, John Adams
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. This is a 1933 first edition of an account of the medical and public health administration in the Soviet Union, based on the authors' 9,000 mile tour of the country in 1932, supported by the Milbank Memorial Fund; Sir Arthur Newsholme was a public health authority and the chief medical officer for Britain's Local Government Board; John Adams Kingsbury was a public health advocate and New York City's Commissioner of Public Charities; includes 19 full-page black & white photographs, 8 by Margaret Bourke-White; a separate card in the book is inscribed to Louis J. Dublin, a statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and an expert on the causes of mortality, and signed by both authors (black cloth with black lettering on red spine label; end papers have Bourke-White photos; half-title page with Louis J. Dublin's signature and date of March, 1934, has some erasures and impression of paper clips that held the card signed by the authors; otherwise this is a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Inscribed By Authors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Title
- Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia
- Author
- Newsholme, Arthur; Kingsbury, John Adams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1933
- Bookseller catalogs
- Soviet Union;
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