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By Karen Buhler-Wilkerson. 336 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. $48. ISBN 0-8018-6598-0.

Not the least of the achievements of Ian McEwan's recent novel Atonement (New York: Doubleday, 2002) is its vivid portrait of the work of nurses in London during the Second World War. These nurses worked in the hospital rather than at home, and at heart, the nurse and the hospital are synonymous. In contrast, the history of nursing at home — what we might call public health nursing — is not well known. The long history of domestic nursing notwithstanding, home care remains shadowy territory for most historians.

The aim of this new book is to try to understand why . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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