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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808674203321

Autore

Buhler-Wilkerson Karen <1944-2010.>

Titolo

No place like home : a history of nursing and home care in the United States / / Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : John Hopkins University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-8018-7479-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.1/4/0973

Soggetti

Home nursing - History

Home nursing - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Part I 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 -- Part II 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 -- Part III Management and Money -- 6 The Business of Private Nursing -- 7 A Cautionary Tale The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Home Care Experiment -- Part IV Reinventing Home Care in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- 8 "An Unchanging Purpose in a Changing World" -- 9 Home Care Becomes the Fashion-Again -- The Future of Home Care -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Buhler-Wilkerson links local ideas about the formation and function of home-based services to national events and health care agendas, and she gives special attention to care of the "dangeroussick, particularly poor immigrants with infectious diseases, and the "uninterestingsick--those with chronic illnesses.