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The care of strangers : the rise of America's hospital system / Charles E. Rosenberg.
LIBRA RA981.A2 R59 1987
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Van Pelt Library RA981.A2 R59 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenberg, Charles E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals--United States--History--19th century.
- Hospitals.
- Hospitals--United States--History--20th century.
- Medicine--United States--History--19th century.
- Medicine.
- History.
- United States.
- Medicine--United States--History--20th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 437 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 1987.
- Summary:
- This history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. A traditional institution, 1800-1850. To heal the sick : the antebellum hospital and society
- Vocation and stewardship : inconsistent visions
- The medical mind : tradition and change in antebellum American
- pt. 2. A new healing order, 1850-1920. Expanding a traditional institution : social sources of hospital growth, 1850-1875
- Ventilation, contagion, and germs
- The promise of healing : science in the hospital
- A marriage of convenience : hospitals and medical careers
- The ward as classroom
- Healing hands : nursing in the hospital
- The private patient revolution
- A careful oversight : reshaping authority
- Life on the ward
- The new-model hospital and its critics
- The past and the present.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1987 by Basic Books, Inc."--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-424) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Kislak Center Copy retains dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0465008771 :
- OCLC:
- 16717005
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