Hearts of Wisdom - American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940

The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case.

List of 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 Shaw 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

About the author

Emily K. Abel is Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health.

Summary

Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Abel, Emily K. Abel, Abel Emily K.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2002
• EAN: 9780674010154
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01015-4
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 227 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medicine: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Caregiving, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls