The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments It is a pleasure for me to be able to thank all the people who have helped me while I worked on this book. My study of public health in Milwaukee originated as a doctoral dissertation at the University ofChicago under the supervision of Richard C. Wade, Lester S. King, and Arthur Mann. I am immeasurably grateful to these historians. John Hope Franklin at the University of Chicago also provided important support during my years as a graduate student. A Maurice L. Richardson fellowship and a faculty grant from the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin provided financial assistance. This publication also was supported in part by NIH Grant LM 03052 from the National Library of Medicine. Portions of chapters three and four appeared in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Vol. 50, 1976) and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Vol. 35, 1980) and are reproduced here with the permission of the editors. My work could not have proceeded without the cheerful cooperation of the librarians at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, where I spent many long hours. I especially want to thank Wilma Thompson in the Microforms room and the staff of the Archives division. Myrna Williamson in the Iconography section aided my search for illustrations . Dorothy Whitcomb, historical librarian, and Blanche Singer, interlibrary loans, at the Middleton Health Sciences Library at the University of Wisconsin proved equally helpxix Copyrighted Material ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ful. The University of Wisconsin Cartography Laboratory drew the maps. At the City of Milwaukee Health Department Robert]. Harris,jr. facilitated my access to the official records and photographs. At the Milwaukee Public Library Paul]. Woehrmann assisted my searches through the Local History Room collection and Herbert Rice graciously allowed me to use his working index to the Milwaukee Sentinel . The late Mary Dougherty of the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine patiently guided me through the uncatalogued collection. My colleagues at the University of Wisconsin History of Medicine Department, Guenter B. Risse and William Coleman , generously gave support at crucial moments and challenged my thinking on the major issues in the history of medicine and public health. I am most eager to thank my colleague and friend, Ronald L. Numbers, without whose consistent encouragement and support this book might not have been finished. His high standards of scholarship and prolific pen have provided an important model, and his specific suggestions on this manuscript have been invaluable . I would also like to thank Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, of Harvard University, who read and criticized two chapters ; Clay McShane, of Northeastern University, who pushed me over an important hump; Michael L. Walzer, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, who read an earlier draft of the entire manuscript, and, in a decidedly brotherly manner, offered his suggestions for revisions; and Lewis A. Leavitt, of the University of Wisconsin, whose unrelenting support in ways intellectual, emotional, and practical remains essential to my work. Others have helped in special ways. Betty Taylor, Piper Luetke, Eve Mokotoff, Christina Ginter, and Deb Goldstein have devoted hours of attention to my children. Sarah Abigail and David Isaac themselves contributed unique brands of support and helped to synthesize my world view. Kathy Conklin and Margaret Kraak patiently typed and retyped portions of the manuscript. William]. Orr, jr. gathered xx Copyrighted Material ACKNOWLEDGMENTS local election results and translated Polish and German newspaper editorials. My parents, to whom I dedicate this book, provided the basic ingredients of a supportive and loving family, from which all else grows. Mistakes, foibles, and inconsistencies remain my own. xxi Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material ...