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Hearts of Wisdom : American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (338 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020023
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hearts of WisdomDDC classification:
  • 362.1/082/0973
LOC classification:
  • R727
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 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": Conflicts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals -- Part Two: 1890-1940 -- 4 A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha 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 -- 7 Caregiving during the Great Depression: Mothers Seeking Children's Health Care and American Indians Encountering Public Health Nurses -- 8 "Very Dear to My Heart": Confronting Labels of Feeblemindedness and Epilepsy -- 9 "Like Ordinary Hearing Children": Raising Offspring according to Oralist Dictates -- Conclusion: The Uses of the Past -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.
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Intro -- Contents -- 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": Conflicts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals -- Part Two: 1890-1940 -- 4 A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha 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 -- 7 Caregiving during the Great Depression: Mothers Seeking Children's Health Care and American Indians Encountering Public Health Nurses -- 8 "Very Dear to My Heart": Confronting Labels of Feeblemindedness and Epilepsy -- 9 "Like Ordinary Hearing Children": Raising Offspring according to Oralist Dictates -- Conclusion: The Uses of the Past -- Notes -- Index.

Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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