The Contagious City : The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia /

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By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped...

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Autor principal: Finger, Simon, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social medicine.
Public health > Political aspects.
Politics and government
Communicable diseases > Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Maladies infectieuses > Aspect politique > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Sante publique > Aspect politique > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 18e siecle.
History, 18th Century > epidemiology
Health Policy > epidemiology
Health Policy > history
Communicable Disease Control > epidemiology
Communicable Disease Control > history
Public Health > epidemiology
Public Health > history
Social medicine > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Communicable diseases > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Public health > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Politics and government > 18th century.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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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