LEADER 04947nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910779281203321 005 20231009230458.0 010 $a0-8014-6447-1 010 $a0-8014-6400-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464003 035 $a(CKB)2550000000101782 035 $a(OCoLC)797834371 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10563877 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000655041 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11423696 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000655041 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593316 035 $a(PQKB)11309874 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495654 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138341 035 $a(OCoLC)797158275 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28777 035 $a(DE-B1597)478274 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936375 035 $a(OCoLC)979575651 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464003 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138341 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10563877 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681784 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000101782 100 $a20111214d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe contagious city $ethe politics of public health in early Philadelphia /$fSimon Finger 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50502-0 311 $a0-8014-4893-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Epidemic Constitutions --$t1. "A Rude Place and an Unpolisht Man": William Penn and the Nature of Pennsylvania --$t2. "An Infancy of Government": Population, Authority, and the Problem of Proprietorship --$t3. "A Suitable Charity or an Effectual Security": Community, Contagion, and the Care of Strangers --$t4. "A Body Corporate and Politick": Association, Interest, and Improvement in a Provincial City --$t5. "Improvement in Every Part of the Healing Art": Transatlantic Cultures of Medical Improvement --$t6. "A Fine Field for Professional Improvement": Sites and Sources of Medical Authority in the Revolutionary War --$t7. "In a Yielding State": Nervous Nationalism in the New Republic --$t8. "Those Friendly Reciprocities": Panic and Participation in the Age of Yellow Fever --$t9. "A Matter of Police": Fever and Betrayal in the Federal Union --$tConclusion: Looking West from Philadelphia --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aBy the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine.Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city's history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city's planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city's history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city's location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America. 606 $aPublic health$xPolitical aspects$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aCommunicable diseases$xPolitical aspects$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSocial medicine$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xPolitics and government$y18th century 615 0$aPublic health$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aCommunicable diseases$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSocial medicine$xHistory 676 $a362.109748/11 700 $aFinger$b Simon$f1977-$01546443 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779281203321 996 $aThe contagious city$93802061 997 $aUNINA