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Author Golden, Janet, author

Title Pictures of Health : A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945 / Janet Golden, Charles E. Rosenberg
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description 1 online resource : 170 illus
Series Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Representing Medicine: Philadelphia, Health, and Photography, 1860-1945 -- One. Training for the New Professions -- Two. Hospitals: The Delivery of Medical Care -- Three. Health in the Community -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health, Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history
Analysis Caregiving
Health
Medicine
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Nov 2017)
Subject Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Pictorial works
Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Pictorial works
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Medical care
Medicine
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form History
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenberg, Charles E., author
ISBN 9781512816303
1512816302