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Autore: | Abel Emily K |
Titolo: | Hearts of wisdom : American women caring for kin, 1850-1940 / / Emily K. Abel |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.1/082/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Caregivers - United States - History - 19th century |
Caregivers - United States - History - 20th century | |
Medical personnel-caregiver relationships - United States - History - 19th century | |
Medical personnel-caregiver relationships - United States - History - 20th century | |
Women - United States - Social conditions | |
Home nursing - United States - History - 19th century | |
Home nursing - United States - History - 20th century | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-320) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Century |
Sommario/riassunto: | A 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hearts of wisdom |
ISBN: | 0-674-02002-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820940903321 |
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