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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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Description
ix, 326 p.; 25 cm.
Subjects
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
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