Hearts of Wisdom : American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 /

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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 car...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abel, Emily K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Aidantes naturelles > Histoire > 19e siècle > États-Unis.
Aidantes naturelles > Histoire > 20e siècle > États-Unis.
Caregivers > History > 19th century > United States.
Caregivers > History > 20th century > United States.
Femmes > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle > États-Unis.
Femmes > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle > États-Unis.
Home nursing > History > 19th century > United States.
Home nursing > History > 20th century > United States.
Medical personnel-caregiver relationships > History > 19th century > United States.
Medical personnel-caregiver relationships > History > 20th century > United States.
Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel > Histoire > 19e siècle > États-Unis.
Relations personnel médical-aidant naturel > Histoire > 20e siècle > États-Unis.
Soins infirmiers à domicile > Histoire > 19e siècle > États-Unis.
Soins infirmiers à domicile > Histoire > 20e siècle > États-Unis > USA > United States.
Women > Social conditions > 19th century > United States.
Women > Social conditions > 20th century > United States.
MEDICAL / History.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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": Conflicts 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
  • 7 Caregiving during the Great Depression: Mothers Seeking Children's Health Care and American Indians Encountering Public Health Nurses
  • 8 "Very Dear to My Heart": Confronting Labels of Feeblemindedness and Epilepsy
  • 9 "Like Ordinary Hearing Children": Raising Offspring according to Oralist Dictates
  • Conclusion: The Uses of the Past
  • Notes
  • Index

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