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

by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

Book Overview

Winner of the Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of NursingHonorable Mention for the Association of American Publishers Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards in Nursing and Allied Heath

No Place Like Home sets out to determine why home care, despite its potential as a cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving. Nurse and historian Karen Buhler-Wilkerson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801873185
• ISBN13: 9780801873188
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"