An edition of The contagious city
(2012)
The contagious city
the politics of public health in early Philadelphia
by Simon Finger
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Politics and government, History, Public health, Social medicine, Communicable diseases, Medical policy, Public health, united states, Philadelphia (pa.), politics and government, History, 18th Century, Health Policy, Communicable Disease Control, Political aspectsPlaces
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Pa.), PhiladelphiaTimes
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The contagious city: the politics of public health in early Philadelphia
2012, Cornell University Press
in English
080144893X 9780801448935
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Table of Contents
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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