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A Once Charitable Enterprise : Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-1915 /

This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techno...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rosner, David, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Health care and community change
  • 2. Embattled benefactors: the crisis in hospital financing
  • 3. Social class and hospital care
  • 4. Conflict in the new hospital
  • 5. Taking control: political reform and hospital governance
  • 6. Consolidating control over the small dispensary: the doctors, the city, and the state
  • 7. The battle for Morningside Heights: power and politics in the boardroom of New York Hospital
  • 8. Looking backward
  • Notes on sources
  • Notes
  • Select bibliography
  • Index