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Almost worthy : the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 / Brent Ruswick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruswick, Brent.
- Series:
- Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Services for--United States--History.
- Poor.
- Charities--United States--History.
- Charities.
- Poverty.
- History.
- Nature and nurture.
- Poor--Services for.
- United States.
- Nature and nurture--United States--History.
- Poverty--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity
- "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace
- Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor
- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism
- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement
- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253006349
- 0253006341
- 9780253006387
- 0253006384
- OCLC:
- 756596903
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