Fever hospitals and fever nurses : a British social history of fever nursing : a national service / Margaret Currie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Currie, Margaret, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--Nursing--Great Britain--History.

Communicable diseases.

Communicable diseases--Hospitals--Great Britain--History.

Nursing--Great Britain--History.

Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. It provides new insights into the development of nursing roles and nurse education and looks at the lives of key figures at that time. The text examines how this once important branch of the nursing profession emerged in the nineteenth century, only to be discarded in the second half of the following century. Drawing on the work of Goffman and Foucault, the study shows how, aided by medical advances, fever nurses transfo

Contents:

Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses A British social history of fever nursing: a national service; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and common terms; 1 Introduction; 2 Institutions and the evolution of nursing care; 3 State registration to the decline of fever nursing; 4 The reality of fever nursing, 1921-71; 5 Smallpox nursing; 6 Fever Nurse Cavell in the 1890s; 7 Two influential fever nurses; 8 The aftermath of fever and smallpox nursing; 9 Conclusion; Appendix

Appendix 1 Notifiable diseases in England and Wales (with the date each was made notifiable under current or similar nomenclature)Appendix 2 The first Governing Body of the Fever Nurses' Association, 1908; Appendix 3 Advertisements for probationers for fever hospitals in England and Wales, 1919; Appendix 4 Certificates; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-26526-3

1-134-26527-1

1-280-23174-2

9786610231744

0-203-69840-1

0-203-02305-6

9780203023051

OCLC:

808033792