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

Title
No place like home : a history of nursing and home care in the United States / Karen Buhler-Wilkerson.
Author
Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen, 1944-2010.
Publication
Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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xiv, 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "Karen Buhler-Wilkerson is a professor of community health and director of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing."--BOOK JACKET.
  • "No Place Like Home sets out to determine why home care, a preferred, rational, and cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving.
  • Nurse-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.".
Subject
  • Home Care Services
  • Home Nursing > history
  • Home nursing > History
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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: A Photo Essay -- Pt. III. Management and Money. 6. The Business of Private Nursing. 7. A Cautionary Tale: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Home Care Experiment -- Pt. IV. Reinventing Home Care in the Mid-Twentieth Century. 8. "An Unchanging Purpose in a Changing World" 9. Home Care Becomes the Fashion - Again. Epilogue: The Future of Home Care.
ISBN
0801865980 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00010275
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries