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Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Patricia D´antonio
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Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation’s health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This groundbreaking new book reveals the key role that these local health programs—and the nurses who ran them—influenced how Americans perceived both their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities. Nursing with a Message transports readers to New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, charting the rise and fall of two community health centers, in the neighborhoods ... Read more
Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation’s health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This groundbreaking new book reveals the key role that these local health programs—and the nurses who ran them—influenced how Americans perceived both their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities. Nursing with a Message transports readers to New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, charting the rise and fall of two community health centers, in the neighborhoods ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813571027
SKU
V9780813571027
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99-50
About Patricia D´antonio
PATRICIA D’ANTONIO is the Killebrew-Censits Endowed Term Professor of Nursing, the director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, and the chair of the department of Family and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia. She is core faculty of the Alice Paul Center and a senior fellow of ... Read more
Reviews for Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
"With clarity and historical sophistication, D'Antonio has identified a crucial hiatus in our historical knowledge. This is definitely a timely and important book."
Susan M. Reverby
author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
"Nursing with a Message is a tour de force—a sophisticated and nuanced book that subtly and powerfully shifts the received arguments and ... Read more
Susan M. Reverby
author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
"Nursing with a Message is a tour de force—a sophisticated and nuanced book that subtly and powerfully shifts the received arguments and ... Read more