Nursing, physician control, and the medical monopoly : historical perspectives on gendered inequality in roles, rights, and range of practice / Thetis M. Group, Joan I. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Group, Thetis M., author.

Roberts, Joan I., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurse and physician--History.

Nurse and physician.

Sexism in medicine--History.

Sexism in medicine.

Feminism--History.

Feminism.

Nursing--History.

Nursing.

Nursing--Social aspects--History.

Sex discrimination against women--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (561 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights, and Range of Practice Thetis M. Group and Joan I. Roberts A history of physicians' efforts to dominate the healthcare system. Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly traces the efforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare, often by subordinating nurses -- their only genuine competitors. Attempts by nurses to reform

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly: An Overview; PART I . Exposing the Meretricious Lies: Early Women Healers and Nurses and the Mythology of Medicine's Natural Supremacy; 1 The Mere Trivia of History?: The Legacy of Early Women Healers and Physicians' Efforts to Exclude or Control Them; 2 She Hath Done What She Could: Reforming Nursing as Physicians Tighten the Medical Monopoly in Great Britain, 1800's to the...

3 The Search for American Nursing Origins: Differing Approaches to the History of Nursing and the Medical Monopoly in the Uni PART II. The Purposeful Move toward Dominance: Subordinating Nurses and Achieving a Medical Monopoly; 4 For Their Own Good"": Physicians Manipulating, Trivializing, and Coercing Nurses, Later 1800's to the 1920's; 5 The Exclusive Guardians of All Matters of Health: The Consolidation of Medical Monopoly in the 1920's and 1930's; 6 A Growing Unease: Nurse-Physician Interprofessional Relations from the 1940's to the 1960's

7 Reconciling Practice with Protest and Confrontation with Cooperation: Nurse-Physician Relations in the 1970's PART III. An Outdated, Burdensome Model of Monopolistic Control: Entering the Twenty-First Century with a Fractured Health-Ca; 8 Who Needs the Autonomous Professional Nurse? Gender Stereotypes Remain Central to Nurse-Physician Relations; 9 Challenges to the Medical Monopoly: Nurses' Gains in Direct Payment, Hospital Privileges, Prescriptive Authority, and Expan; 10 The Results of the Medical Monopoly: A Regulatory and Policy-Making Quagmire; References; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-506) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-06608-0

9786612066085

0-253-10861-6

OCLC:

658235258