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Book SynopsisBuhler-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 "dangeroussick, particularly poor immigrants with infectious diseases, and the "uninterestingsick-those with chronic illnesses.
Trade ReviewAnyone interested in understanding the origins of our ambivalent relationship with home care will find Karen Buhler-Wilkerson's book invaluable. Journal of the American Medical Association A compelling history with profound contemporary relevance. -- John Welshman New England Journal of Medicine Documents the persistence of the issues with which home-care agencies still struggle today. -- Suzanne Gordon The Nation This is a well-researched and balanced work that will capture the readers' interest... It is a wonderful addition to nursing historiography. -- Diane Hamilton Ph.D. R.N. Nursing History Review More than a history of a specialized branch of nursing, Karen Buhler-Wilkerson's book is a study of American values and priorities. -- Melanie Beals Goan Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2003
Table of ContentsContents: 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
