Almost worthy the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 /

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Autor principal: Ruswick, Brent
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Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.
Col·lecció:Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
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Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity
  • "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace
  • Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor
  • Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism
  • "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement
  • The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.