Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service

by Mary Breckinridge

Overview

Wide Neighborhoods is the autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, the remarkable founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. It is equally the story of the unique organization she founded in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky in 1925—the Frontier Nursing Service.

Riding out on horseback, the FNS nurse—midwives, the first of their profession in this country, proved that high mortality rates and malnutrition need not be the norm in remote rural areas. The FNS, through its example and through the graduates of tis school of midwifery and family nursing, has exerted a lasting influence on family health care throughout the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813101491
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	12/31/1981
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
Author's Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Afterword, by Dale Deaton

Editorial Reviews

No Kentuckian should fail to read this story of unequaled dedication, unyielding determination, selfless devotion, resolute courage, and exceptional adventure.

Ashland Daily Independent

An intensely personal account by an indomitable woman, born to the purple, who dedicated herself to delivering health care to Eastern Kentucky mothers and babies.

Louisville Courier—Journal

For anyone interested in the Appalachian people, in nursing, or in a woman who had a dream and worked with other women to make that dream a reality, this is an excellent book.

Ashville Citizen—Times

This will be a welcome reprint for those who want to know about a dynamic woman who rendered such a worth—while service for her people.

Back Home in Kentucky

This unusual and interesting book is recommended reading for persons interested in the history of medicine, public health medicine, and international health.

Journal of the History of Medicine

A moving and provoking book.

Nursing Times

For anyone interested in the Appalachian people, in nursing, or in a woman who had a dream and worked with other women to make that dream a reality, this is an excellent book.

Ashville Citizen-Times

An intensely personal account by an indomitable woman, born to the purple, who dedicated herself to delivering health care to Eastern Kentucky mothers and babies.

Louisville Courier-Journal

"A moving and provoking book." -- Nursing Times

"An intensely personal account by an indomitable woman, born to the purple, who dedicated herself to delivering health care to Eastern Kentucky mothers and babies." -- Louisville Courier-Journal

"Ashville Citizen-TimesThis will be a welcome reprint for those who want to know about a dynamic woman who rendered such a worth-while service for her people." -- Back Home in Kentucky

"For anyone interested in the Appalachian people, in nursing, or in a woman who had a dream and worked with other women to make that dream a reality, this is an excellent book." -- Ashville Citizen-Times

"No Kentuckian should fail to read this story of unequaled dedication, unyielding determination, selfless devotion, resolute courage, and exceptional adventure." -- Ashland Daily Independent

"This unusual and interesting book is recommended reading for persons interested in the history of medicine, public health medicine, and international health." -- Journal of the History of Medicine

"This will be a welcome reprint for those who want to know about a dynamic woman who rendered such a worth-while service for her people." -- Back Home in Kentucky

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