Strong hearts & healing hands : Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950 /
"In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians living on reservations. This corps of white women were dedicated to improving Indian health. In 1928, the first field nurses arrived in the Mis...
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Nursing traditions, indigenous nurses
- Developing nursing
- Developing field nursing
- Field nursing in the Mission Indian Agency
- Expanding agency field nursing
- Families, mothers, and children
- Nurses versus scourges
- Tuberculosis rising
- Arresting tuberculosis
- Homes as sites of infection
- Collapse and reclamation.