More Than Medicine : : Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State / / LaTonya J. Trotter.

In More Than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for four hundred African-American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Word about Methods
  • Introduction
  • Part I. AN EXPANDED TERRAIN FOR NURSING
  • 1. Nursing’s Expertise
  • 2. From Medical Work to Clinic Work
  • 3. Organizational Care Work
  • Part II. A CHANGED TERRAIN FOR MEDICINE
  • 4. New Boundaries, New Relationships
  • 5. Gaining Status, Losing Ground
  • Part III. A SHRINKING TERRAIN FOR SOCIAL PROBLEMS
  • 6. The Contraction of Social Work
  • 7. The Misrecognition of Social Problems
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index