TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abel,Emily K.
TI  - Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
SN  - 9780674020023
AV  - R727 
U1  - 362.1/082/0973 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Caregivers-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Caregivers-United States-History-20th century
KW  - Medical personnel-caregiver relationships-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Medical personnel-caregiver relationships-United States-History-20th century
KW  - Women-United States-Social conditions
KW  - Home nursing-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Home nursing-United States-History-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -