Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain / Helen M. Sweet ; with Rona Dougall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweet, Helen M.

Contributor:

Dougall, Rona.

Series:

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 30.

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health nursing--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Community health nursing.

Primary health care--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Primary health care.

Community Health Nursing--history.

History.

United Kingdom.

History, 20th Century.

Primary Health Care--history.

Great Britain.

Medical Subjects:

Community Health Nursing--history.

United Kingdom.

History, 20th Century.

Primary Health Care--history.

Physical Description:

xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurses work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, training, conditions of service and workload.

Contents:

Historical trajectories: background, c.1850-1919

What became of the lady? The interwar period, 1919-1939

War to welfare state, 1939-1948

Changing places, 1948-1979

Town nurse, country nurse: district nursing landscape

Technology, treatment, and TLC

Generalists and generals: district nursing professionalisation

Language of caring: care and nurses' lives

Portraits of a district nurse

Discussion and conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780415956345

041595634X

OCLC:

123332150