No place like home a history of nursing and home care in the United States - Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen 1944-2010 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-282) and index
pt. 1 - Inventing home care in the nineteenth century -- - 1 - Trained nurses for the sick poor -- - 2 - Creating their own domain : ladies, nurses, and the sick poor -- - pt. 2 - The work and reality -- - 3 - "Treatment of families in which there is sickness" -- - 4 - Caring in its proper place : race relations at home -- - 5 - Lillian Wald and the invention of public health nursing -- - Home nursing care--yesterday, today, and tomorrow : a photo essay -- - pt. 3 - Management and money -- - 6 - The business of private nursing -- - 7 - A cautionary tale : the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's home care experiment -- - pt. 4 - Reinventing home care in the mid-twentieth century -- - 8. "An - unchanging purpose in a changing world" -- - 9 - Home care becomes the fashion again