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Hearts of wisdom : American women caring for kin, 1850-1940
- Title
- Hearts of wisdom : American women caring for kin, 1850-1940 / Emily K. Abel.
- Author
- Abel, Emily K.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press 2000.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 01-11417 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 326 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Caregivers > United States > History > 19th century
- Caregivers > United States > History > 20th century
- Medical personnel-caregiver relationships > United States > History > 19th century
- Medical personnel-caregiver relationships > United States > History > 20th century
- Women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century
- Women > United States > Social conditions > 20th century
- Home nursing > United States > History > 19th century
- Home nursing > United States > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Hot flannels, hot teas, and a great deal of care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888 -- An overview of nineteenth-century caregiving -- "Tried at the quilting bees": conflicts between "old ladies" and aspiring professionals -- A "terrible and exhausting" struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924 -- "Just as you direct": caregiver translations of medical authority -- Negotiating public health directives: poor New Yorkers at the turn of the century -- Caregiving during the Great Depression: mothers seeking children's health care and American Indians encountering public health nurses -- "Very dear to my heart": confronting labels of feeblemindedness and epilepsy -- "Like ordinary hearing children": raising offspring according to oralist dictates -- Conclusion: The uses of the past.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-11417
- ISBN
- 0674003144
- LCCN
- 00033596
- OCLC
- 44046827
- Author
- Abel, Emily K.
- Title
- Hearts of wisdom : American women caring for kin, 1850-1940 / Emily K. Abel.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-11417