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City Hospitals : The Undercare of the Underprivileged / Harry F. Dowling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dowling, Harry F., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospital care--United States--History.
- Public hospitals--United States--History.
- SCIENCE / General.
- SCIENCE / History.
- Urban health--United States--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Hospital care--United States--History.
- Public hospitals--United States--History.
- SCIENCE / General.
- SCIENCE / History.
- Urban health--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Almshouse Period
- 1. Over the Hill from the Poorhouse
- Part II. The Practitioner Period
- 2. Cities, Politicians, and City Hospitals
- 3. Practitioner-Doctors, City Hospitals, and Medical Schools
- 4. Comfort and Care: The Ongoing Struggle
- Part III. The Academic Period
- 5. Cities and Their Hospitals: An Uneasy Equilibrium
- 6. The Development of University Services
- 7. Medical Care: Running to Keep Up
- Part IV. The Community Period
- 8. Problems, Protests, and Possible Solutions
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-33036-6
- OCLC:
- 1024011196
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