No Place Like Home
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-7318-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.5.2003 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 24, 24 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-7318-5 / 0801873185 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-7318-8 / 9780801873188 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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