Mary Breckinridge
Subtitle: the Frontier Nursing Service & rural health in Appalachia
By: Melanie Beals Goan.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780807832110
Subjects: Breckinridge, Mary, -- 1881-1965; Breckinridge, Mary, -- 1881-1965; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc; Nurses -- Appalachian Region -- Biography -- History; Nurses -- Appalachian Region -- Biography; History, 20th Century -- Appalachian Region; Nursing Services -- history -- Appalachian Region; Rural Health Services -- history -- Appalachian Region
Genres: Biography; Biography.
Description: In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to the United States and created a highly successful, cost-effective model for rural health care delivery that has been replicated throughout the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and obligations; title: Motherhood: a career; title: Dreams and visions; title: Blazing the trail; title: Squeezing out the gold; title: Winning patients' trust; title: Praying for better times ahead; title: The challenges of war; title: A woman's world; title: Wide neighborhoods; title: Changing times; title: Stepping into the wings.