- 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
- 7. Caregiving during the Great Depression: Mothers Seeking Children’s Health Care and American Indians Encountering Public Health Nurses
- 8. “Very Dear to My Heart”: Confronting Labels of Feeblemindedness and Epilepsy
- 9. “Like Ordinary Hearing Children”: Raising Offspring according to Oralist Dictates
- Conclusion: The Uses of the Past
- Notes
- Index
Hearts of Wisdom
American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
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ISBN 9780674010154
Publication Date: 09/15/2002
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