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LEADER: 01868nam a22002898a 4500
001 2011051729
003 DLC
005 20111215154243.0
008 111214s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011051729
020 $a9780801448935 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aNIC/DLC$cNIC
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050 00 $aRA448.P45$bF56 2012
082 00 $a362.109748/11$223
100 1 $aFinger, Simon,$d1977-
245 14 $aThe contagious city :$bthe politics of public health in early Philadelphia /$cSimon Finger.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1205
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a"A rude place and an unpolisht man" : William Penn and the nature of Pennsylvania -- "An infancy of government" : population, authority, and the problem of proprietorship -- "A suitable charity or an effectual security" : community, contagion, and the care of strangers -- "A body corporate and politick" : association, interest, and improvement in a provincial city -- "Improvement in every part of the healing art" : transatlantic cultures of medical improvement -- "A fine field for professional improvement" : sites and sources of medical authority in the Revolutionary War -- "In a yielding state" : nervous nationalism in the new republic -- "Those friendly reciprocities" : panic and participation in the age of yellow fever -- "A matter of police" : fever and betrayal in the federal union.
650 0 $aPublic health$xPolitical aspects$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$xPolitical aspects$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSocial medicine$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century.
651 0 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xPolitics and government$y18th century.