A history of the charity hospitals of Louisiana
Subtitle: a study of poverty, politics, public health, and the public interest
By: Jonathan Roberts and Thomas J. Durant Jr. ; with a foreword by Michael Butler.
Contributors: Durant, Thomas J., 1941-
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Pr
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780773438866
Subjects: Voluntary hospitals -- Louisiana -- History; Poor -- Hospital care -- Louisiana -- History; Hospitals, Public -- history -- Louisiana; Charities -- history -- Louisiana; Delivery of Health Care -- history -- Louisiana; History, 18th Century -- Louisiana; History, 19th Century -- Louisiana; History, 20th Century -- Louisiana
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of public hospitals in the United States : an overview; title: Medical center of Louisiana at New Orleans; title: Louisiana State University Hospital at Shreveport; title: Huey P. Long Medical Center at Pineville; title: University Medical Center at Lafayette; title: Lallie Kemp Medical Center at Independence; title: E.A. Conway Medical Center at Monroe; title: Bogalusa Medical Center at Bogalusa; title: W.O. Moss Regional Medical Center at Lake Charles; title: Earl K. Long Medical Center at Baton Rouge; title: Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center at Houma; title: The impact of race, gender, and class on the development of charity hospitals in Louisiana; title: African Americans in the charity hospitals; title: Women in the charity hospitals; title: The poor in the charity hospitals; title: The future of charity hospitals in the twenty-first century; title: The impact of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the charity hospital system.