LEADER 04600nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910454588903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02002-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020023 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786768 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH21620370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000169825 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11154224 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169825 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215258 035 $a(PQKB)10977193 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300343 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315848 035 $a(OCoLC)923110714 035 $a(DE-B1597)574468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020023 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786768 100 $a20000428d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHearts of wisdom$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican women caring for kin, 1850-1940 /$fEmily K. Abel 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00314-4 311 $a0-674-01015-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-320) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments 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 Century 330 $aA 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. 330 $bThe 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. 606 $aCaregivers$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCaregivers$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMedical personnel-caregiver relationships$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMedical personnel-caregiver relationships$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aHome nursing$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHome nursing$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCaregivers$xHistory 615 0$aCaregivers$xHistory 615 0$aMedical personnel-caregiver relationships$xHistory 615 0$aMedical personnel-caregiver relationships$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aHome nursing$xHistory 615 0$aHome nursing$xHistory 676 $a362.1/082/0973 700 $aAbel$b Emily K$0943482 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454588903321 996 $aHearts of wisdom$92279974 997 $aUNINA