| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages :) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public health -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century.
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Public health -- Political aspects. |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Public health. |
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Communicable diseases -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century.
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Communicable diseases -- Political aspects. |
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Communicable diseases. |
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Social medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century.
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Social medicine. |
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Finger, Simon, 1977- Contagious city. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012 9780801448935 (DLC) 2011051729 (OCoLC)767566918 |
| ISBN |
9780801464003 (electronic book) |
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0801464005 (electronic book) |
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9780801448935 |
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080144893X cloth alkaline paper |
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