From almshouse to hospital: the shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital.
Year: 1982
Type: other
Abstract: After almost 250 years, one of the nation's first, and most illustrious, hospitals closed. Its demise was a particularly dramatic but representative symptom of a more general decay in the quality of public medicine in America's older cities. The gradual differentiation of municipal welfare mechanisms from almshouse to hospital is traced; it has been an elusive and incomplete evolution.
Source: PubMed
Author: C E Rosenberg
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1900844200