| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson. No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 293. $45.00.

The care of the sick at home, whether by family members or professionals, is the most invisible part of any health care system. In this book, nursing historian Karen Buhler-Wilkerson joins other groundbreaking scholars, including Emily K. Abel and Deborah Stone, whose research sheds light on this hidden form of caregiving. Her book demonstrates both the persistence of home care and its continuing marginalization. 1

This book tells the story of organized, professional home nursing in the United States. It traces the beginnings of the most prominent form of this care, the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), to antebellum Charleston, South Carolina. In the Charleston Ladies' Benevolent Society, which hired nurses to visit the homes of the sick poor, Buhler-Wilkerson finds themes that would continue to shape home care well into the twentieth century: struggles over authority and control (among nurses and charity leaders, doctors, patients, and later, third-party payers); the complexity and difficulties of coordination and centralization of visiting nurse services; and the perennial problem of the chronically ill, the most expensive, difficult, and disappointing patients to nurse. . . .

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