Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iv
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: 1850–1890
6. 1 “Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care”: Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858–1888 11
7. 2 An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving 37
8. 3 “Tried at the Quilting Bees”: Conflicts between “Old Ladies” and Aspiring Professionals 68
9. Part Two: 1890–1940
10. 4 A “Terrible and Exhausting” Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890–1924 85
11. 5 “Just as You Direct”: Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority 119
12. 6 Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century 150
13. 7 Caregiving during the Great Depression: Mothers Seeking Children’s Health Care and American Indians Encountering Public Health Nurses 177
14. 8 “Very Dear to My Heart”: Confronting Labels of Feeblemindedness and Epilepsy 201
15. 9 “Like Ordinary Hearing Children”: Raising Offspring according to Oralist Dictates 239
16. Conclusion: The Uses of the Past 251
17. Notes 277
18. Index 321