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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.