A Once Charitable Enterprise
Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885–1915
- Hardback
- ISBN:9780521242172
- Publication date:September 1982
- 246pages
- Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.53kg
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A social history of the health care system in New York City from the 1890s through the Progressive Era. Analyzes the dramatic reorganization of the hospital system from a series of idiosyncratic social welfare facilities into rationalized and bureaucratized medical institutions. Examines the political and financial struggles which accompanied the growth of the modern hospital system.
