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Introduction-Chapter 1

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Garbes, Angela. Essential Labor: Mothering As Social Change. HarperCollins, 2022. Hardcover.

· In the Introduction, Garbes describes her mother as “a natural-born caretaker” (1).

· When her mother grew up in Mandaluyong, a city in Metro Manila, she found a frail chick that she nursed back to health.

· She was devastated when she rolled over in bed and suffocated the bird, but that did not deter her mother from pursuing a career caring for others.

· In the 1960s, nursing was a new and prosperous career for Pinay women.

· She trained at Philippine General Hospital to become a registered nurse before she immigrated to the U.S.

· During her career in the U.S., she worked mostly as a hospice nurse caring for people in the last stages of their life.

· She grew close to her patients and families...

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