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Author Rosenberg, Charles E.

Title The care of strangers : the rise of America's hospital system / Charles E. Rosenberg.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1987]
©1987

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.1109 R813C    Check Shelf
Description x, 437 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [353]-424.
Note Includes index.
Contents Pt. 1. A traditional institution, 1800-1850. To heal the sick : the antebellum hospital and society -- Vocation and stewardship : inconsistent visions -- The medical mind : tradition and change in antebellum American -- Pt. 2. A new healing order, 1850-1920. Expanding a traditional institution : social sources of hospital growth, 1850-1875 -- Ventilation, contagion, and germs -- The promise of healing : science in the hospital -- A marriage of convenience : hospitals and medical careers -- The ward as classroom -- Healing hands : nursing in the hospital -- The private patient revolution -- A careful oversight : reshaping authority -- Life on the ward -- The new-model hospital and its critics -- The past and the present.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-1920
Subject Hospitals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Hospitals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Hospitals -- history -- United States.
ISBN 0465008771: $22.95
9780465008773
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