Abel, Emily K. <br/><br/>
Hearts of Wisdom :  American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (338 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674020023 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Caregivers-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Caregivers-United States-History-20th century.<br/>Medical personnel-caregiver relationships-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Medical personnel-caregiver relationships-United States-History-20th century.<br/>Women-United States-Social conditions.<br/>Home nursing-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Home nursing-United States-History-20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R727 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.1/082/0973