ISBN: 9780674010154

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: HARVARD UNIV PR], While caring for sick and disabled family members was commonplace for women in 19th- and early-20th-century america, that caregiving, the caregiv… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: HARVARD UNIV PR], While caring for sick and disabled family members was commonplace for women in 19th- and early-20th-century america, that caregiving, the caregivers' experience of it, and the medical professions raction to it took diverse and sometimes unexpected forms. A complex series of historical changes, Abel shows, has profoundly altered the content and cultural meaning of care. "Hearts of Wisdom" is an immersion into that "world of care". Drawing on antebellum slave narratives, white farm women's diaries, and public health records, Abel puts together a multifaceted picture of what caregiving meant to American women -and what it cost them - from the pre-Civil War years to the brink of America's entry into the Second World War. She shows that caregiving offered women an arena in which experience could be parlayed into expertise, while at the same time the revolution in bacteriology and the transformation of the formal health care system were weakening women's claim to that expertise.Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen<

ISBN: 9780674010154

A study of caregiving in America across ethnic and class divides during the 19th and early 20th century. This book reveals how a complex series of historical changes altered the cultural … More...

A study of caregiving in America across ethnic and class divides during the 19th and early 20th century. This book reveals how a complex series of historical changes altered the cultural meaning of care.; Health, Family & Lifestyle, Harvard University Press<

2002, ISBN: 9780674010154

American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940, Softcover, Buch, [PU: Harvard University Press]

ISBN: 9780674010154

Livre, [PU: Harvard University Press]