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Charities, Medical

Here are entered works on free or low cost medical and nursing care. Works on social services that supplement medical and nursing care are entered under Medical social work.

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• Charities
• Medical care

• Charities, Medical -- Great Britain
• Blind -- Institutional care
• Poor -- Medical care
• Voluntary health agencies

• Medical charities
• Socialized medicine

• Handbook of Organization and Method in Hospital Social Service: An Outline of Policies As Practiced at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. (Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1922), by Margaret Smith Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics (c1993), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)

• El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries? (c2008), by Laura J. Frost and Michael Reich (PDF files with commentary at accessbook.org)

• Children's Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Outpatient Immunosuppressive Drugs Under Medicare (OTA-H-452; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop, ed. by Constance F. Citro, Charles F. Manski, and John Pepper (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop, ed. by Constance F. Citro, Charles F. Manski, and John Pepper (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop, ed. by Constance F. Citro, Charles F. Manski, and John Pepper (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Evaluation of the Oregon Medicaid Proposal (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations (Washington: National Academies Press, c2011), by Committee on Oral Health Access to Services (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations (Washington: National Academies Press, c2011), by Committee on Oral Health Access to Services (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Medicare Hospital Subsidies: Money in Search of a Purpose (Washington: AEI Press, 2002), by Sean Nicholson (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2012), by Adam D. Reich (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005), by Bernadette McCauley (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• House of Hospitality (1939), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
• Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women of Canada: Their Life and Work (ca.1900), by National Council of Women of Canada (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historical Sketch of the Charitable Institutions of Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Manitoba Free Press Co., 1899), by Mrs. George Bryce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• South Carolina Women in the Confederacy (Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1903-1907), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
  • multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• An Abstract From the Account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, Situate in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: Instituted in the Year 1758, for the Reception of Friendless and Deserted Orphan Girls, the Settlement of Whose Parents Cannot be Found (London: Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799), by Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England) (page images at NIH)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
• Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Isle of Man Charities (1831), by J. McHutchin and George Quirk (HTML at Manx Note Book)

• History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at MOA)

• The Charities Review (full serial archives)
• The Charity Organisation Review (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (full serial archives)

• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)

• American Charities (revised edition; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1908), by Amos Griswold Warner and Mary Roberts Coolidge, contrib. by George Elliott Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Behind the Bars (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by Adeline T. P. Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations (with commentary by the publisher; New York: Long House, c1954), by Norman Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits; With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools (third edition, with added material; London: J. Tonson, 1724), by Bernard Mandeville (multiple formats at Google)

• Humanitarian Politics (Headline Series #304; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1995), by Larry Minear and Thomas G. Weiss (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by James L. Barton, contrib. by Calvin Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), ed. by Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mildmay: or, The Story of the First Deaconess Institution (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1893), by Harriette J. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Nickel and a Prayer (Cleveland: Elli Kani Pub. Co., c1940), by Jane Edna Hunter, contrib. by George Albert Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.