Winner of the Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of NursingHonorable 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.
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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
