Publication: From Almshouse to Hospital: The Shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital
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1982
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Rosenberg, Charles E. 1982. From almshouse to hospital: The shaping of Philadelphia general hospital. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society 60(1): 108-154.
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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.
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