Nursing rural America : perspectives from the early 20th century /
John C. Kirchgessner, Arlene Keeling, editors.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Town and country nursing : community participation and nurse recruitment / Sandra B. Lewenson -- Public nursing in rural Wisconsin : stretched beyond health instruction / Rima D. Apple -- School nursing in Virginia : hookworm, tooth decay and tonsillectomies / Mary E. Gibson -- Nursing in the Schoolfield Mill Village : cotton and welfare / Sarah White Craig -- Care in the coal fields : promoting health through sanitation and nutrition / John C. Kirchgessner -- Mary Breckenridge and the frontier nursing service : saddlebags and swinging bridges / Anne Z. Cockerham -- Migrant nursing in the Great Depression : shantytowns and suitcase camps / Arlene W. Keeling -- Nursing in West Texas : trains, tumbleweeds, and rattlesnakes / Melissa McIntire Sherrod -- Nursing the Navajo : dust storms and gully washouts / Arlene W. Keeling.