The contagious city : the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / Simon Finger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finger, Simon, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Public health.

Communicable diseases--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Communicable diseases.

Social medicine--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Social medicine.

History.

Communicable diseases--Political aspects.

Public health--Political aspects.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--18th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Zebooker fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780801448935 ;