| Edition |
Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Home nursing -- History.
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| ISBN |
0801873185 |
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9780801873188 |
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