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No Place Like Home

A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
  • ISBN-13: 9780801873188
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
  • Price: AUD $66.99
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2003
  • Format: Paperback 312 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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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 special attention to care of the ''dangerous'' sick, particularly poor immigrants with infectious diseases, and the ''uninteresting'' sick–those with chronic illnesses.

Contents:
I. Inventing Home Care in the Nineteenth Century
Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor
Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses, and the Sick PoorII.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
III. Management and MoneyThe Business of Private Nursing
A Cautionary Tale: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Home Care Experiment
IV. 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

""More than a history of a specialized branch of nursing, Karen Buhler-Wilkerson's book is a study of American values and priorities.""

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