The contagious city [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / / Simon Finger |
Autore | Finger Simon <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.109748/11 |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century
Communicable diseases - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century Social medicine - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8014-6447-1
0-8014-6400-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemic Constitutions -- 1. "A Rude Place and an Unpolisht Man": William Penn and the Nature of Pennsylvania -- 2. "An Infancy of Government": Population, Authority, and the Problem of Proprietorship -- 3. "A Suitable Charity or an Effectual Security": Community, Contagion, and the Care of Strangers -- 4. "A Body Corporate and Politick": Association, Interest, and Improvement in a Provincial City -- 5. "Improvement in Every Part of the Healing Art": Transatlantic Cultures of Medical Improvement -- 6. "A Fine Field for Professional Improvement": Sites and Sources of Medical Authority in the Revolutionary War -- 7. "In a Yielding State": Nervous Nationalism in the New Republic -- 8. "Those Friendly Reciprocities": Panic and Participation in the Age of Yellow Fever -- 9. "A Matter of Police": Fever and Betrayal in the Federal Union -- Conclusion: Looking West from Philadelphia -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451846003321 |
Finger Simon <1977-> | ||
Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The contagious city : the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / / Simon Finger |
Autore | Finger Simon <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.109748/11 |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century
Communicable diseases - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century Social medicine - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
0-8014-6447-1
0-8014-6400-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemic Constitutions -- 1. "A Rude Place and an Unpolisht Man": William Penn and the Nature of Pennsylvania -- 2. "An Infancy of Government": Population, Authority, and the Problem of Proprietorship -- 3. "A Suitable Charity or an Effectual Security": Community, Contagion, and the Care of Strangers -- 4. "A Body Corporate and Politick": Association, Interest, and Improvement in a Provincial City -- 5. "Improvement in Every Part of the Healing Art": Transatlantic Cultures of Medical Improvement -- 6. "A Fine Field for Professional Improvement": Sites and Sources of Medical Authority in the Revolutionary War -- 7. "In a Yielding State": Nervous Nationalism in the New Republic -- 8. "Those Friendly Reciprocities": Panic and Participation in the Age of Yellow Fever -- 9. "A Matter of Police": Fever and Betrayal in the Federal Union -- Conclusion: Looking West from Philadelphia -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779281203321 |
Finger Simon <1977-> | ||
Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The contagious city : the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / / Simon Finger |
Autore | Finger Simon <1977-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.109748/11 |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century
Communicable diseases - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century Social medicine - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
0-8014-6447-1
0-8014-6400-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemic Constitutions -- 1. "A Rude Place and an Unpolisht Man": William Penn and the Nature of Pennsylvania -- 2. "An Infancy of Government": Population, Authority, and the Problem of Proprietorship -- 3. "A Suitable Charity or an Effectual Security": Community, Contagion, and the Care of Strangers -- 4. "A Body Corporate and Politick": Association, Interest, and Improvement in a Provincial City -- 5. "Improvement in Every Part of the Healing Art": Transatlantic Cultures of Medical Improvement -- 6. "A Fine Field for Professional Improvement": Sites and Sources of Medical Authority in the Revolutionary War -- 7. "In a Yielding State": Nervous Nationalism in the New Republic -- 8. "Those Friendly Reciprocities": Panic and Participation in the Age of Yellow Fever -- 9. "A Matter of Police": Fever and Betrayal in the Federal Union -- Conclusion: Looking West from Philadelphia -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823325503321 |
Finger Simon <1977-> | ||
Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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