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.

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

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Public Health--History--Philadelphia.

Communicable Disease Control--History--Philadelphia.

Health Policy--History--Philadelphia.

History, 18th Century--Philadelphia.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health--History--Philadelphia.

Communicable Disease Control--History--Philadelphia.

Health Policy--History--Philadelphia.

History, 18th Century--Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 226 p. : ill. ; 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 (p. 163-167) and index.

ISBN:

9780801448935 (cloth : alk. paper)

080144893X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

767566918