Dr. Charles David Spivak

Dr. Charles David Spivak: A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement (Timberline Books) [Hardcover]

Author: Jeanne Abrams | Language: English | ISBN: 0870819410 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Dr. Charles David Spivak: A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement
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Part biography, part medical history, and part study of Jewish life in turn-of-the-century America, Jeanne Abrams's book tells the story of Dr. Charles David Spivak - a Jewish immigrant from Russia who became one of the leaders of the American Tuberculosis Movement.

Born in Russia in 1861, Spivak immigrated to the United States in 1882 and received his medical degree from Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College by 1890. In 1896, his wife's poor health brought them to Colorado. Determined to find a cure, Spivak became one of the most charismatic and well-known leaders in the American Tuberculosis Movement. His role as director of Denver's Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society sanatorium allowed his personal philosophies to strongly influence policies. His unique blend of Yiddishkeit, socialism, and secularism - along with his belief in treating the "whole" patient - became a model for integrating medical, social, and rehabilitation services that was copied across the country.

Not only a national leader in the crusade against tuberculosis but also a luminary in the American Jewish community, Dr. Charles Spivak was a physician, humanitarian, writer, linguist, journalist, administrator, social worker, ethnic broker, and medical, public health, and social crusader. Abrams's biography will be a welcome addition to anyone interested in the history of medicine, Jewish life in America, or Colorado history.

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• Series: Timberline Books
• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado (May 31, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870819410
• ISBN-13: 978-0870819414
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,383,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Dr. Charles Spivak is a medical pioneer whose place in the history of American medicine has, until now, been undocumented. This carefully researched and clearly written biography records the life of the longtime director of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society outside Denver, the largest charitable TB Sanitarium in the west. A dedicated physician and visionary in the field of public health, Spivak was at the forefront of the battle against "the white plague" in the decades before the tuberculosis was "conquered" (if only temporarily, as it now appears) by the first generation of antibiotics. Spivak's life is set in the context of the history of the sanitarium he directed (large enough to count as a town: Spivak, Colorado), and more generally as part of the larger chronicle, newly relevant today, of the country's attempt to eradicate a pandemic infectious disease. Dr. Abrams, director of the JCRS archive, is Spivak's ideal biographer. As someone working in the same field--and no less important--as the son of a TB patient who recovered under Dr. Spivak's care, I found this book both invaluable professionally, and, personally, deeply moving. Ernest B. Gilman, Professor of English, New York University

By Lois Gilman

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