The contagious city the politics of public health in early Philadelphia

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ISBN: 9780801448935
ISBN: 0801464005 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780801464003 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 226 p. :) ill., maps.
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Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:february.14
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"A rude place and an unpolisht man" : William Penn and the nature of Pennsylvania -- "An infancy of government" : population, authority, and the problem of proprietorship -- "A suitable charity or an effectual security" : community, contagion, and the care of strangers -- "A body corporate and politick" : association, interest, and improvement in a provincial city -- "Improvement in every part of the healing art" : transatlantic cultures of medical improvement -- "A fine field for professional improvement" : sites and sources of medical authority in the Revolutionary War -- "In a yielding state" : nervous nationalism in the new republic -- "Those friendly reciprocities" : panic and participation in the age of yellow fever -- "A matter of police" : fever and betrayal in the federal union.
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