![]() | Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 Subjects: Caregivers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Caregivers -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Medical personnel-caregiver relationships -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Medical personnel-caregiver relationships -- United Stat; The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case. |
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