Book
No place like home : a history of nursing and home care in the United States / Karen Buhler-Wilkerson.
Includes information on Mary Beard, black nurses, blacks, Boston (Massachusetts), Charleston (South Carolina), homecare, Ladies Benevolent Society, race, nursing salaries, tuberculosis, visiting nurse associations, etc.
Record details
- ISBN: 0801873185
- ISBN: 9780801873188
- Physical Description: xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
- Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 : a photo essay -- pt. 3. Management and money -- 6. The business of private nursing -- 7. A cautionary tale : the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's home care experiment -- pt. 4. Reinventing home care in the mid-twentieth century -- 8. "An unchanging purpose in a changing world" -- 9. Home care becomes the fashion again. |
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| Subject: | Home nursing > History. Home Care Services > history. Community Health Nursing > history. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | RT 120 .H65 B84 2001 | 30775305544729 | General Collection | Available | - |
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