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

• Autore: Buhler-Wilkerson Karen
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : John Hopkins University Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 362.1/4/0973
• Soggetto topico: Home nursing - History; Home nursing - United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: No place like home
• ISBN: 0-8018-7479-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808674203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II