The American general hospital : communities and social contexts / Diana Elizabeth Long and Janet Golden, editors.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.

xvi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Community and communities : the evolution of the American hospital / Charles E. Rosenberg -- From respectable domesticity to medical efficiency : the changing Kansas City Hospital, 1875-1920 / Joan E. Lynaugh -- Women, surgeons, and a worthy enterprise : the general hospital comes to upper New York State / Edward C. Atwater -- Picturing the hospital : photographs in the history of an institution / Rima D. Apple -- The Negro hospital renaissance : the Black hospital movement, 1920-1945 / Vanessa Northington Gamble -- Machines and medicine : technology transforms the American hospital / Joel D. Howell -- Legitimate relationship : nursing, hospitals, and science in the twentieth century / Susan M. Reverby --

Doing well or doing good : the ambivalent focus of hospital administration / David Rosner -- Coming of age : Local 1199 in the 1960s / Brian Greenberg -- Times past, times present / Rosemary A. Stevens.

Includes bibliographical references and index..