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No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States

No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
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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.
Language
English
Pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Release
February 04, 2003
ISBN
0801873185
ISBN 13
9780801873188

No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
4/5 ( ratings)
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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.
Language
English
Pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Release
February 04, 2003
ISBN
0801873185
ISBN 13
9780801873188

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