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019 _a(OCoLC)979575651
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780801464003
035 _a(DE-B1597)478274
035 _a(OCoLC)797834371
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050 4 _aRA448.P45
_bF56 2016
072 7 _aHIS036080
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082 0 4 _a362.10974811
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFinger, Simon
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Contagious City :
_bThe Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia /
_cSimon Finger.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (246 p.) :
_b10 halftones, 1 chart/graph
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _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
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aCommunicable diseases
_xPolitical aspects
_xHistory
_x18th century
_xPennsylvania
_xPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aCommunicable diseases
_xPolitical aspects
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aPublic health
_xPolitical aspects
_xHistory
_x18th century
_xPennsylvania
_xPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aPublic health
_xPolitical aspects
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aSocial medicine
_xHistory
_x18th century
_xPennsylvania
_xPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aSocial medicine
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 4 _aUrban Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
_2bisacsh
653 _awilliam penn, city life and health, disease in cities, colonial life, american medical history, american colonization, medicine and politics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801464003
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801464003
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c197569
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