04566nam 2200709Ia 450 991077819210332120221108041606.00-674-02002-210.4159/9780674020023(CKB)1000000000786768(StDuBDS)AH21620370(SSID)ssj0000169825(PQKBManifestationID)11154224(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169825(PQKBWorkID)10215258(PQKB)10977193(Au-PeEL)EBL3300343(CaPaEBR)ebr10315848(OCoLC)923110714(DE-B1597)574468(DE-B1597)9780674020023(MiAaPQ)EBC3300343(EXLCZ)99100000000078676820000428d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrHearts of wisdom[electronic resource] American women caring for kin, 1850-1940 /Emily K. AbelCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20001 online resource (336 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-00314-4 0-674-01015-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-320) and index.Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: 1850-1890 1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888 2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving 3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Con icts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals Part Two: 1890-1940 4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924 5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority 6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the CenturyA study of caregiving in America across ethnic and class divides during the 19th and early 20th century. This book reveals how a complex series of historical changes altered the cultural meaning of care.The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case. While caring for sick and disabled family members was commonplace for women in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, that caregiving, the caregivers' experience of it, and the medical profession's reaction to it took diverse and sometimes unexpected forms. A complex series of historical changes, Abel shows, has profoundly altered the content and cultural meaning of care. Hearts of Wisdom is an immersion into that "world of care." Drawing on antebellum slave narratives, white farm women's diaries, and public health records, Abel puts together a multifaceted picture of what caregiving meant to American women--and what it cost them--from the pre-Civil War years to the brink of America's entry into the Second World War. She shows that caregiving offered women an arena in which experience could be parlayed into expertise, while at the same time the revolution in bacteriology and the transformation of the formal health care system were weakening women's claim to that expertise.CaregiversUnited StatesHistory19th centuryCaregiversUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMedical personnel-caregiver relationshipsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryMedical personnel-caregiver relationshipsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomenUnited StatesSocial conditionsHome nursingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryHome nursingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCaregiversHistoryCaregiversHistoryMedical personnel-caregiver relationshipsHistoryMedical personnel-caregiver relationshipsHistoryWomenSocial conditions.Home nursingHistoryHome nursingHistory362.1/082/0973Abel Emily K943482MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778192103321Hearts of wisdom3687796UNINA