No Place Like Home
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6598-5 (ISBN)
This work sets out to determine why home care, despite its potential as 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 19th-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. Focusing on sickrooms of the rich, middle class and poor, this historical account examines how race, ethnicity, income, gender, type of illness, local conditions and patterns of practice influenced access to and quality of care. 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.
The book also evaluates the impact of social attitudes, medical advances, demographic change, and economic factors in shifting care from the home to the hospital and back home again.
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.
Part I. Inventing Home Care in the Nineteenth Century
Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor
Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses, and the Sick Poor
Part II. 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
Part III. Management and MoneyThe Business of Private Nursing
A Cautionary Tale: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Home Care Experiment
Part 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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.7.2001 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 24 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-6598-0 / 0801865980 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-6598-5 / 9780801865985 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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