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The business of private medical practice : doctors, specialization, and urban change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940 / James A. Schafer Jr.
LIBRA R728 .S33 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schafer, James A., Jr., 1974- author.
- Series:
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Practice--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Specialties and specialists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Physicians (General practice)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Physicians (General practice).
- Urban health--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Urban health.
- History.
- Medicine--Specialties and specialists.
- Medicine--Practice.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Private Practice--history.
- Philadelphia.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physicians--history.
- Urban Health Services--history.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Private Practice--history.
- Philadelphia.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physicians--history.
- Urban Health Services--history.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- The primacy of private practice
- The doctor as business owner
- Downtown specialists and neighborhood GPs
- New career paths, new business methods
- From Center City to suburb.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813561752
- 0813561752
- 9780813561745
- 0813561744
- OCLC:
- 827775842
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