False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing

Author:   Karen Buhler-Wilkerson ,  Susan M. Reverby ,  Julie A. Fairman ,  Sandra B. Lewenson
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9781978808720


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   15 January 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
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Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson's False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the ""rise and fall"" narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society.

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Author:   Karen Buhler-Wilkerson ,  Susan M. Reverby ,  Julie A. Fairman ,  Sandra B. Lewenson
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.003kg
ISBN:  

9781978808720


ISBN 10:   1978808720
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   15 January 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Can there be a New Dawn for Public Health Nursing? by Susan Reverby and Julie A. Fairman Preface 1          Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor: Care, Cleanliness and Character                            2          Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses and the Sick Poor       3          The Hope and Promise of Public Health        4          Preserving the Treasures of their Tradition: The Founding of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service       5          The Decline of Public Health Nursing: Economical and Pragmatic, but No Longer Necessary 6          Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography   Index

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Karen Buhler Wilkerson's False Dawn has never been surpassed as the authoritative text on the history of public health nursing in the United States. This new edition, with a new introduction by two of the leading historians of nursing and with an updated bibliography, fills a critical gap in this literature. --Rima D. Apple Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison


"""Karen Buhler Wilkerson's False Dawn has never been surpassed as the authoritative text on the history of public health nursing in the United States. This new edition, with a new introduction by two of the leading historians of nursing and with an updated bibliography, fills a critical gap in this literature."" --Rima D. Apple ""Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison"""


Author Information

KAREN BUHLER-WILKERSON (1944-2010) was professor emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and director emerita of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. JULIE A. FAIRMAN, PhD, RN is the Nightingale Professor in honor of Nursing Veterans at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and chair of the Biobehavorial Health Sciences Department.  SUSAN M. REVERBY is the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is also an historian of American women, medicine and nursing.

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