No place like home: a history of nursing and home care in the United States
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Main Author: Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen 1944-2010 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2001
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 293 pages)
ISBN:0801874793
9780801874796

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