Wide Neighbourhoods
Mary B. Breckenridge
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Description for Wide Neighbourhoods
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: BG; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Wide Neighborhoods is the autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, the remarkable founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. It is equally the story of the unique organization she founded in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky in 1925 -- the Frontier Nursing Service.
Riding out on horseback, the FNS nurse-midwives, the first of their profession in this country, proved that high mortality rates and malnutrition need not be the norm in remote rural areas. The FNS, through its example and through the graduates of tis school of midwifery and family nursing, has exerted a lasting influence on family health care throughout the ... Read more
Wide Neighborhoods is the autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, the remarkable founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. It is equally the story of the unique organization she founded in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky in 1925 -- the Frontier Nursing Service.
Riding out on horseback, the FNS nurse-midwives, the first of their profession in this country, proved that high mortality rates and malnutrition need not be the norm in remote rural areas. The FNS, through its example and through the graduates of tis school of midwifery and family nursing, has exerted a lasting influence on family health care throughout the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813101491
SKU
V9780813101491
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
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