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History Of The Philadelphia Almshouses And Hospitals

History Of The Philadelphia Almshouses And Hospitals

Charles Lawrence

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesRegional: WestSocial Movements

ISBN10: 9353602610
ISBN13: 9789353602611
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Feb 25 2019
Pages: 446
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before modern welfare states, cities improvised care for their poorest and most vulnerable. In Philadelphia, that story unfolded inside its almshouses and early hospitals. These institutions shaped a city. Charles Lawrence's History Of The Philadelphia Almshouses And Hospitals is a landmark social welfare history book that traces how a young American metropolis organised almshouses and charity care, built a fragile philadelphia poor relief system, and gradually laid the foundations of an early pennsylvania hospital system. Lawrence offers a detailed philadelphia institutional history, setting the growth of almshouses, workhouses and hospitals against the wider backdrop of 18th and 19th century Philadelphia, early American urban poverty and the evolving history of American medicine. His narrative illuminates urban public health development, medical and hospital history, and the shifting boundaries between public responsibility and private charity. Today it serves both as a rich reference for medical scholars and social historians and as an indispensable scholarly reference philadelphia hospitals and poor-relief institutions, valued by researchers of civic reform, medicine and urban planning alike. More than a local chronicle, this enduring study captures a formative chapter in American social policy and public health. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic study has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it appeals to curious general readers, students of medical history and serious collectors seeking an authoritative heritage edition of Philadelphia's almshouses and hospitals.

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