The contagious city
Subtitle: the politics of public health in early Philadelphia
By: Simon Finger
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780801448935
Subjects: Politics and government; Public health; History; Social medicine; Communicable diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A rude place and an unpolisht man" : William Penn and the nature of Pennsylvania; title: "An infancy of government" : population, authority, and the problem of proprietorship; title: "A suitable charity or an effectual security" : community, contagion, and the care of strangers; title: "A body corporate and politick" : association, interest, and improvement in a provincial city; title: "Improvement in every part of the healing art" : transatlantic cultures of medical improvement; title: "A fine field for professional improvement" : sites and sources of medical authority in the Revolutionary War; title: "In a yielding state" : nervous nationalism in the new republic; title: "Those friendly reciprocities" : panic and participation in the age of yellow fever; title: "A matter of police" : fever and betrayal in the federal union.