No Place Like Home A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States

Name: No Place Like Home A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
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ISBN: 9780801873188

ISBN-10: 0801873185

ISBN-13: 9780801873188

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Authors: Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

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No Place Like Home sets out to determine why home care, despite its potential as a cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving. Nurse and 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. Buhler-Wilkerson links local ideas about the formation and function of home-based services to national events and health care agendas, and she gives…

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List price: $26.00
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Prelude



Inventing Home Care in the Nineteenth Century



Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor



Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses, and the Sick Poor



The Work and Reality



"Treatment of Families in Which There Is Sickness"



Caring in Its Proper Place: Race Relations at Home



Lillian Wald and the Invention of Public Health Nursing


Home Nursing Care--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: A Photo Essay



Management and Money



The Business of Private Nursing



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



Reinventing Home Care in the Mid-Twentieth Century



"An Unchanging Purpose in a Changing World"



Home Care Becomes the Fashion--Again


Epilogue: The Future of Home Care


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Index