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

Main Author: Ruswick, Brent.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10631193
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300 |a xi, 264 p. 
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505 0 |a 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. 
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