No place like home : a history of nursing and home care in the United States / Karen Buhler-Wilkerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen, 1944-2010.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home nursing--History.

Home nursing.

Home nursing--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 "dangeroussick, particularly poor immigrants with infectious diseases, and the "uninterestingsick--those with chronic illnesses.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Prelude

Part I 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

Part II 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

Part III Management and Money

6 The Business of Private Nursing

7 A Cautionary Tale The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Home Care Experiment

Part IV Reinventing Home Care in the Mid-Twentieth Century

8 "An Unchanging Purpose in a Changing World"

9 Home Care Becomes the Fashion-Again

The Future of Home Care

Abbreviations

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7479-3

OCLC:

70733519