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Author Goan, Melanie Beals, 1972-

Title Mary Breckinridge : the Frontier Nursing Service & rural health in Appalachia / Melanie Beals Goan.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  610.73 B742Bg 2008    ---  Available
Description xi, 348 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-339) and index.
Contents Origins and obligations -- Motherhood: a career -- Dreams and visions -- Blazing the trail -- Squeezing out the gold -- Winning patients' trust -- Praying for better times ahead -- The challenges of war -- A woman's world -- Wide neighborhoods -- Changing times -- Stepping into the wings.
Subject Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965.
Nurses -- Appalachian Region -- Biography -- History.
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.
Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965.
Nurses -- Appalachian Region -- Biography.
History, 20th Century -- Appalachian Region.
Nursing Services -- history -- Appalachian Region.
Rural Health Services -- history -- Appalachian Region.
ISBN 9780807832110 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832111 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLM 101322302
AU@ 000042460847

 
    
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