UID:
almafu_9959234863902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (336 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-674-02002-2
Inhalt:
A study of caregiving in America across ethnic and class divides during the 19th and early 20th century. This book reveals how a complex series of historical changes altered the cultural meaning of care.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: 1850-1890 1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888 2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving 3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Con icts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals Part Two: 1890-1940 4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924 5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority 6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-674-00314-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-674-01015-9
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4159/9780674020023
