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Lillian Wald: America's Great Social and Healthcare Reformer

by Paul KAPLAN
112p. further reading. index. notes. reprods. Pelican. Mar. 2018. Tr $14.95. ISBN 9781455623501.
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Gr 7 Up—Born in 1867, Lillian Wald grew up privileged in a Jewish community and witnessed the conditions of the poor when she became a nurse and worked at a youth asylum in New York City. There, she moved to the Lower East Side to teach its residents about health and hygiene. She helped form "settlements" so the nurses could live where they worked. She taught nurses to treat the whole person and not just the illness and started several social reform programs, influenced many more, and helped create nursing as a profession. This book is well researched, dense, and informative, and the author often writes in short sentences yet uses sophisticated vocabulary such as lackadaisical and ameliorating. The book offers an overview of early 20th-century society and has impressive back matter, too.
VERDICT A secondary purchase for collections looking to beef up biography sections and to go beyond social reformers such as Jane Addams and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Reviewed by Kristin Joy Anderson, Bloomingdale Public Library, IL , Apr 01, 2018

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