A Once Charitable Enterprise (Princeton Legacy Library, 490) - Softcover

Rosner, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691028354 ISBN 13: 9780691028354

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1986

Synopsis

This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era.

Originally published in 1986.

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About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

For three decades, David Rosner has worked as a sportswriter at major metro newspapers and national magazines. As an award-winning staff writer at Newsday" in New York, he spent twelve years covering the full gamut of pro sports including horse racing. He has covered racing since the spring of 77 when his first bylined stories as a cub reporter chronicled the harrowing Belmont spill that hospitalized the teen sensation Steve Cauthen. Rosner earned national Associated Press Sports Editors Association awards for investigative reporting and for deadline writing as well as New York State AP and UPI awards for enterprise journalism. He also served as editor-in-chief of the national hockey magazine "Rinkside" and coauthored The Official Illustrated NHL History".

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0691028354
• ISBN 13: 9780691028354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244