Almost worthy the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2013.
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| Serie: | Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
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Sommario:
- 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.