公衆衛生看護婦 1890-1930 : ナース・カバンの看護婦たち Part 2

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This paper discusses the rise and fall of public health nurses in the United States. It will show the struggles of nurses to respond to the needs of the nation faced with the influx of immigrants. It also explains their difficulties to build a nation-wide network of nurses by advocating home care as a crucial preventive medicine. Part one deals with its inception through the efforts of Henry Street (Nurses') Settlement in their attempt to establish nurses' autonomy and also it focuses on previously neglected African American nurses working there. Part Two will discuss the efforts of nurses to expand their network by establishing The Public Health Association. Although their work was highly praised, they encountered financial problems and had to challenge the bureaucracy of the medical authority. Their move to seek public funding met with the general distrust towards social medicine. The very idea of home care was obsolete by the end of 1930. Yet I will argue that the early nurses who introduced the idea of national health were the main architects of a social welfare state.
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