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An introduction to the social history of nursing / Robert Dingwall, Anne Marie Rafferty and Charles Webster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dingwall, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Great Britain--History.
- Nursing.
- Care of the sick.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 256 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been transformed by the application of concepts and methods from the social sciences to original sources. The myths and legends which have grown up through a century of anecdotal writing have been chipped away to reveal the complex story of an occupation shaped and reshaped by social and technological change. Most of the work has been scattered in monographs, journals and edited collections. The skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse have been brought together to rethink the history of modern nursing.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary of abbreviations; Nurses and Servants; The Revolution in Nursing; The New Model Nurse; Making the Myths; The Search for Unity; The Nationalization of Nursing; Mental Disorder and Mental Handicap; Midwifery; District Nursing and Health Visiting; Professional Autonomy and Economic Constraints; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-97870-7
- 1-134-97871-5
- 1-280-01874-7
- 9786610018741
- 0-203-40331-2
- 9780203403310
- OCLC:
- 475886368
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