|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Home nursing - History |
Home nursing - United States |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|