Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service

By Mary Breckinridge

Book Overview

"The autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, the remarkable founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. Riding out on horseback, the FNS nurse-midwives, the first of their profession in this country, proved... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813114535
• ISBN13: 9780813114538
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Rich in history

I'm not normally a history buff, but this book is fantastic. An autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, this book also delves into the history of turn of the century US and France. A must for Frontier Nursing students!

The greatest woman in Kentucky history.

A woman surrounded by wealth, widely traveled, followed her "calling" to come to the poorest, most remote area of Kentucky to establish the Frontier Nursing Service in the 1920's. She, almost singlehandly, established a hospital in Hyden, Ky, started a Midwifery School (still very active) and provided, with her nurses, medical and midwifery service on horseback - later jeeps - to several counties in southeast Kentucky. It is my intent to present this message to those who might be interested in bringing about the long needed story of this woman's life and contributions in a full length motion picture.