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The Care of Strangers

The Rise of America's Hospital System

Charles E. Rosenberg

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An elegantly written book that broadens the history of hospitals and places it squarely within the larger field of American social history.

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456
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9780801850820
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Charles E. Rosenberg

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.