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No place like home : a history of nursing and home care in the United States / Karen Buhler-Wilkerson.
Van Pelt Library RT120.H65 B84 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen, 1944-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home nursing--History.
- Home nursing.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- "No Place Like Home" sets out to determine why home care, despite its potential as a cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving. Nurse and historian Karen Buhler-Wilkerson traces the history of home care from its nineteenth-century origins in organized visiting nurses' associations, through a time when professional home care nearly disappeared, on to the 1960s, when a new wave of home care gathered force as physicians, hospital managers, and policy makers responded to economic mandates. Buhler-Wilkerson links local ideas about the formation and function of home-based services to national events and health care agendas, and she gives special attention to care of the "dangerous" sick, particularly poor immigrants with infectious diseases, and the "uninteresting" sick--those with chronic illnesses.
- Contents:
- Part I. Inventing Home Care in the Nineteenth Century
- 1. Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor 17
- 2. Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses, and the Sick Poor 29
- Part II. The Work and Reality
- 3. "Treatment of Families in Which There Is Sickness" 45
- 4. Caring in Its Proper Place: Race Relations at Home 68
- 5. Lillian Wald and the Invention of Public Health Nursing 98
- Home Nursing Care
- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: A Photo Essay 115
- Part III. Management and Money
- 6. The Business of Private Nursing 125
- 7. A Cautionary Tale: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Home Care Experiment 146
- Part IV. Reinventing Home Care in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- 8. "An Unchanging Purpose in a Changing World" 167
- 9. Home Care Becomes the Fashion
- Again 183
- Epilogue: The Future of Home Care 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801865980
- OCLC:
- 44585966
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