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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816671303321

Autore

Buhler-Wilkerson Karen <1944-2010, >

Titolo

False dawn : the rise and decline of public health nursing / / Karen Buhler-Wilkerson ; foreword by Susan M. Reverby and Julie A. Fairman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781978808737

1-9788-0876-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 189 pages)

Collana

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Disciplina

610.734

Soggetti

Public health nursing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Can There Be a New Dawn for Public Health Nursing? -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor Care, Cleanliness, and Character -- Chapter 2 Creating Their Own Domain Ladies, Nurses, and the Sick Poor -- Chapter 3 The Hope and Promise of Public Health -- Chapter 4 Preserving the Treasures of Their Tradition The Founding of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service -- Chapter 5 The Decline of Public Health Nursing Economical and Pragmatic but No Longer Necessary -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant



immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society.