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Title:

Nursing rural America : perspectives from the early 20th century / John C. Kirchgessner, Arlene Keeling, editors.

Publisher:

Springer Publishing CompanyLLC,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

p. ; cm.

Subject:

History, 20th Century--United States.
Rural Nursing--history--United States.

Other Authors:

Kirchgessner, John C.,.
Keeling, Arlene Wynbeek, 1948-

Notes:

Presented in memory of Margaret L. McKee by Jerry & Sylvia Kaiman. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Town and country nursing : community participation and nurse recruitment / Sandra B. Lewenson -- Public nursing in rural Wisconsin : stretched beyond health instruction / Rima D. Apple -- School nursing in Virginia : hookworm, tooth decay and tonsillectomies / Mary E. Gibson -- Nursing in the Schoolfield Mill Village : cotton and welfare / Sarah White Craig -- Care in the coal fields : promoting health through sanitation and nutrition / John C. Kirchgessner -- Mary Breckenridge and the frontier nursing service : saddlebags and swinging bridges / Anne Z. Cockerham -- Migrant nursing in the Great Depression : shantytowns and suitcase camps / Arlene W. Keeling -- Nursing in West Texas : trains, tumbleweeds, and rattlesnakes / Melissa McIntire Sherrod -- Nursing the Navajo : dust storms and gully washouts / Arlene W. Keeling.

ISBN:

0826196144
9780826196149

LCCN:

2014010255

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)