Mary Breckinridge : the Frontier Nursing Service & rural health in Appalachia /
In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to t...
| Основен автор: | Goan, Melanie Beals, 1972- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2008.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=461017 |
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Print version::
Mary Breckinridge. |
Съдържание:
- Origins and obligations
- Motherhood: a career
- Dreams and visions
- Blazing the trail
- Squeezing out the gold
- Winning patients' trust
- Praying for better times ahead
- The challenges of war
- A woman's world
- Wide neighborhoods
- Changing times
- Stepping into the wings.