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The care of strangers
the rise of America's hospital system
By Rosenberg, Charles E.
- ISBN
- 978-0-46500-877-3
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, c1987.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1987
As hospitals are now an intrinsic part of health-care delivery, the information in Rosenberg's well-researched , carefully documented book may astonish readers. It traces the modern hospital from its origins in the 19th-century almshouse to the post-World War I period , when the hospital achieved status as an institution for the middle and upper classes. More narrowly focused than Paul Starr's Social Transformation of American Medicine ( LJ 11/1/...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
