Stephen E. Kirchhoff - Encyclopedia of Indianapolis

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Stephen E. Kirchhoff

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Hospital Guilds

Hospital Guilds

Hospital guilds have raised funds and coordinated volunteer activities for all the hospital systems in Indianapolis. Guilds have operated gift… Read More »Hospital Guilds

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

Until the 1890s most medical education in the United States occurred at private, proprietary schools. University-based schools with access to… Read More »Indiana University School of Medicine

Medical Research

Medical Research

In the late 1800s, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led successful efforts by European scientists to identify specific disease organisms,… Read More »Medical Research

Mortality And Morbidity

Mortality And Morbidity

The Indianapolis Board of Health began publishing annual health statistics, including statistics on death and disease, in the 1890s. Such… Read More »Mortality And Morbidity

Philanthropy and Health Care

Philanthropy and Health Care

In the early 1800s, philanthropic interest in health was sporadic, peaking during epidemics. In 1847 an early Indianapolis board of… Read More »Philanthropy and Health Care

Public Health

Early Indianapolis residents lived under conditions that led to frequent bouts of malaria, typhoid fever, and cholera. Families were often… Read More »Public Health

Voluntarism

Volunteering is central to our understanding of the nonprofit sector. Volunteers not only perform much of the work of the… Read More »Voluntarism

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