A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade. Nursing history has been transformed from an internalist and triumphalist form of professional apologetics to a robust and reflective area of scholarship. The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, the Philippines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and…mehr
A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade. Nursing history has been transformed from an internalist and triumphalist form of professional apologetics to a robust and reflective area of scholarship. The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, the Philippines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and the part that history has to play in the education of nurses today.
List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Nursing under totalitarian regimes: the case of National Socialism 2 The legacy of the history of nursing for post-apartheid South Africa 3 The Rockefeller Agenda for American/Philippines nursing relations 4 Rescue and redemption-the rise of female medical missions in colonial India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 5 Outside the profession: nursing staff on Robben Island 1846-1910 6 Convicts and care giving in colonial Australia 1788-1868 7 Independent women: domiciliary nurses in midnineteenth- century Edinburgh 8 Ordered to care?: professionalization gender and the language of training 1915-37 9 Ambivalence about nursing's expertise: the role of a 164 gendered holistic ideology in nursing 1890-1990 10 'For the benefit of mankind': Nightingale's legacy and hours of work in Australian nursing 1868-1939 11 Employment conditions for nurses in Australia during World War II 12 Seeking jurisdiction: a sociological perspective on Rockefeller Foundation activities in nursing in the 1920s 13 Children and state intervention: developing a coherent historical perspective 14 Women and the politics of career development: the case of nursing 15 Nurses in the archives: archival sources for nursing history Index
List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Nursing under totalitarian regimes: the case of National Socialism 2 The legacy of the history of nursing for post-apartheid South Africa 3 The Rockefeller Agenda for American/Philippines nursing relations 4 Rescue and redemption-the rise of female medical missions in colonial India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 5 Outside the profession: nursing staff on Robben Island 1846-1910 6 Convicts and care giving in colonial Australia 1788-1868 7 Independent women: domiciliary nurses in midnineteenth- century Edinburgh 8 Ordered to care?: professionalization gender and the language of training 1915-37 9 Ambivalence about nursing's expertise: the role of a 164 gendered holistic ideology in nursing 1890-1990 10 'For the benefit of mankind': Nightingale's legacy and hours of work in Australian nursing 1868-1939 11 Employment conditions for nurses in Australia during World War II 12 Seeking jurisdiction: a sociological perspective on Rockefeller Foundation activities in nursing in the 1920s 13 Children and state intervention: developing a coherent historical perspective 14 Women and the politics of career development: the case of nursing 15 Nurses in the archives: archival sources for nursing history Index
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