False dawn : the rise and decline of public health nursing, 1900-1930 /

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"Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Press, Karen Buhler Wilkerson's False Dawn: The Rise and Fall of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen, 1944-2010 (Author)
Other Authors: Reverby, Susan M., Fairman, Julie A., Lewenson, Sandra B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick ; Newark, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Public health nursing > History > 20th century.
Public health nursing > History.
Public Health Nursing > history
History, 20th Century
Soins infirmiers en santé publique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Soins infirmiers en santé publique > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Public health nursing
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Can there be a new dawn for public health nursing? / Susan M. Reverby and Julie A. Fairman
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Trained nurses for the sick poor: care, cleanliness, and character
  • Chapter 2. Creating their own domain: ladies, nurses, and the sick poor
  • Chapter 3. The hope and promise of public health
  • Chapter 4. Preserving the treasures of their tradition: the founding of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service
  • Chapter 5. The decline of public health nursing: economical and pragmatic but no longer necessary
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Suggested readings
  • Index
  • About the author
  • Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series.

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