No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
Awards:   Commended for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Nursing and Allied Heath 2004 (United States) Commended for PROSE Award for Best Book in Nursing and Allied Heath 2004 (United States) Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2001. Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2004 Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2004 (United States) Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2004.
Author:   Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:  

9780801873188


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   02 May 2003
Recommended Age:   From 17
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No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States


Awards

  • Commended for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Nursing and Allied Heath 2004 (United States)
  • Commended for PROSE Award for Best Book in Nursing and Allied Heath 2004 (United States)
  • Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2001.
  • Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2004
  • Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2004 (United States)
  • Winner of American Association for the History of Nursing: Lavinia L. Dock Award 2004.

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Author:   Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780801873188


ISBN 10:   0801873185
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   02 May 2003
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

"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"

Reviews

<p>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 (01/01/0001)


Anyone 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


Author Information

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.

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