The contagious city the politics of public health in early Philadelphia /
Finger, Simon, 1977-
The contagious city the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / Simon Finger. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages :) illustrations, maps.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
9780801464003
Public health--Political aspects--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Communicable diseases--Political aspects--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Social medicine--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Electronic Books.
RA448 / .C668 2012
The contagious city the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / Simon Finger. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages :) illustrations, maps.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
9780801464003
Public health--Political aspects--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Communicable diseases--Political aspects--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Social medicine--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Electronic Books.
RA448 / .C668 2012