False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Buhler-Wilkerson, Karen

ISBN 10: 1978808739 / ISBN 13: 9781978808737

Published by Rutgers University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978808739
• ISBN 13: 9781978808737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society. 

About the Author

KAREN BUHLER-WILKERSON (1944-2010) was professor emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and director emerita of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

JULIE A. FAIRMAN, PhD, RN is the Nightingale Professor in honor of Nursing Veterans at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and chair of the Biobehavorial Health Sciences Department. 

SUSAN M. REVERBY is the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is also an historian of American women, medicine and nursing.