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100 1 _aAbel, Emily K.
245 1 0 _aHearts of Wisdom :
_bAmerican Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c2000.
264 4 _c©2002.
300 _a1 online resource (338 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aAbel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aCaregivers-United States-History-19th century.
650 0 _aCaregivers-United States-History-20th century.
650 0 _aMedical personnel-caregiver relationships-United States-History-19th century.
650 0 _aMedical personnel-caregiver relationships-United States-History-20th century.
650 0 _aWomen-United States-Social conditions.
650 0 _aHome nursing-United States-History-19th century.
650 0 _aHome nursing-United States-History-20th century.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAbel, Emily K.
_tHearts of Wisdom
_dCambridge : Harvard University Press,c2000
_z9780674010154
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300343
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