Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia,New

Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia,New

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In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (18811965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nursemidwifery to the United States and created a highly successful, costeffective model for rural health care delivery that has been replicated throughout the world.In this first comprehensive biography of the FNS founder, Melanie Beals Goan provides a revealing look at the challenges Breckinridge faced as she sought reform and the contradictions she embodied. Goan explores Breckinridge's perspective on gender roles, her charisma, her sense of obligation to live a life of service, her eccentricity, her religiosity, and her application of professionalized, sciencebased health care ideas. Highly intelligent and creative, Breckinridge also suffered from depression, was by modern standards racist, and fought

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