Almost worthy [electronic resource] : the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 / Brent Ruswick.

By: Ruswick, BrentContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Philanthropic and nonprofit studiesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013Description: xi, 264 pISBN: 9780253006387 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Poor -- Services for -- United States -- History | Charities -- United States -- History | Nature and nurture -- United States -- History | Poverty -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.5/57632097309034 LOC classification: HV91 | .R87 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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