Description: No Place Like Home : A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States, Paperback by Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen, ISBN 0801873185, ISBN-13 9780801873188, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Winner of the Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing Honorable Mention for the Association of American Publishers Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards in Nursing and Allied Heath 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.
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Book Title: No Place Like Home : A History of Nursing and Home Care in the Un
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: No Place like Home : a History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: Nursing / Home & Community Care, History
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Subject Area: Science, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
