The Contagious City : : The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia /

The Contagious City : : The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia / / Simon Finger.

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By 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Finger, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.) :; 10 halftones, 1 chart/graph
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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