Tending the Body Politic: Health Governance, Benevolence, and Betterment in Sydney, 1835–55

The two decades spanning 1835 to 1855 represented a critical stage in delivering medical care within the city of Sydney. Hitherto, hospital admission was reserved for convicts and military personnel. Yet in 1836 the colonial government experimented with subsidising medical, surgical, and inpatient s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Health and History. - Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 1998. - 19(2017), 2, Seite 90-115
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Health and History
Schlagworte:Smallpox vaccination public health hospitals colonial Australia Health sciences Biological sciences Philosophy Economics Political science Behavioral sciences