Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Big Moll and the Science of Scientific Charity -- 2 "Armies of Vice": Evolution, Heredity, and the Pauper Menace -- 3 Friendly Visitors or Scientific Investigators? Befriending and Measuring the Poor -- 4 Opposition, Depression, and the Rejection of Pauperism -- 5 "I See No Terrible Army": Environmental Reform and Radicalism in the Scientific Charity Movement -- 6 The Potentially Normal Poor: Professional Social Work, Psychology, and the End of Scientific Charity -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Course Syllabus, Alexander Johnson: Study Class in Social Science in the Department of Charity -- Appendix 2. Course Syllabus, Mrs. S. E. Tenney: The Class for Study of the Friendly Visitor's Work -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.