No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States

No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
ISBN-10
0801865980
ISBN-13
9780801865985
Series
No Place Like Home
Category
Medical / Nursing / General
Pages
293
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Author
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

Description

This work sets out to determine why home care, despite its potential as a preferred, rational, and cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving. Nurse-historian Karen Buhler-Wilkerson traces the history of home care from its 19th-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.

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