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By Emily K. Abel. 326 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2000. $49.95. ISBN 0-674-00314-4.

The history of private care for the sick or disabled is an area much neglected by historians of health and medicine. It is a rich history, however, and one that also has a place in the history of private life, the family, and community relations. If it is a neglected history, however, it is also an undervalued one, especially in the history of health and medicine. Private care for the sick by family members and neighbors has always been the primary form of nursing care, and it remains so in poor countries. Care as a gift relationship lies at the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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