TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruswick,Brent
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Almost worthy: the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 
T2  - Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
SN  - 9780253006387
AV  - HV91 .R87 2013
U1  - 362.5/57632097309034 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Poverty
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Nature and nurture
KW  - Charities
KW  - Poor
KW  - Services for
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253006387/
ER  -