A Once Charitable Enterprise - Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885-1915 (Paperback, Revised)

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.