Class Difference and the Reformation of Ontario’s Public Hospitals

How and why did early-20th century hospitals endorse class inequality?

Read James Wishart’s article “Class Difference and the Reformation of Ontario’s Public Hospitals” (You will need to read the article before writing on it). Write a short essay answering one of the following questions on the article.

You can pick one question from the following Four questions and write a thesis statement and make 3 arguments and then give conclusion about it. There is an example on next page,  u can follow that to figure out what I need in my Essay assignment.

1 According to this author, how and why did early-20th century hospitals endorse class inequality? Do you agree with this argument? Why or why not?

2 How does this article portray hospital management (i.e. does it portray management positively, negatively, or somewhere in the middle)? Why does the article portray hospital management in this way?

3 According to the article, how did Canadian society see the role of hospitals in the early 20th century? Did society see hospitals as a business that was meant to respond to wealthy donors, or as providing services to all, or both?

4 How does the article portray nurses, doctors, and the staff who worked at the hospital? Were there divisions in how different groups of hospital workers (nurses, doctors, other staff) were treated?