Rosner A Once Charitable Enterprise

Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-1915
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5842-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era.

Originally published in 1986.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosner, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. vii
Introduction, pg. 1
1. Health care and community change, pg. 13
2. Embattled benefactors: the crisis in hospital financing, pg. 36
3. Social class and hospital care, pg. 62
4. Conflict in the new hospital, pg. 94
5. Taking control: political reform and hospital governance, pg. 122
6. Consolidating control over the small dispensary: the doctors, the city, and the state, pg. 146
7. The battle for Morningside Heights: power and politics in the boardroom of New York Hospital, pg. 164
8. Looking backward, pg. 187
Notes on sources, pg. 192
Notes, pg. 194
Select bibliography, pg. 228
Index, pg. 231