Helen M Sweet, With Rona Dougall

Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956345
• ISBN-10: 041595634X
• Artikelnr.: 21765978

Autorenporträt

Dr Helen Sweet is currently working at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, as a Research Associate. Dr Rona Dougall is research Assistant at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Glossary and Conventions
Introduction PART 1: The history of District Nursing. Chapter 1 Historical
Trajectories: c1850-1919 Chapter 2 What became of the Lady? The inter-war
period 1919-1939 Chapter 3 War to Welfare State: 1939-1948 Chapter 4
Changing places: 1948-Project 2000 PART 2: Themes and Issues: The district
nurse and the changing world of primary health care. Chapter 5 Town nurse,
country nurse: district nursing landscape Chapter 6 Technology, treatment
and TLC Chapter 7 Generals and Generalists Chapter 8 Language of Caring:
Care and nurses¿ lives. Chapter 9 Portraits of a District Nurse Chapter 10
Conclusion Bibliography