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by Ruswick, Brent.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Philanthropic and nonprofit studies Published by : Indiana University Press, (Bloomington :) Physical details: xi, 264 p.
Subject(s): Poor -- Services for -- United States -- History. | Charities -- United States -- History. | Nature and nurture -- United States -- History. | Poverty -- United States -- History. | Electronic books.
Year: 2013
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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