Description
Book SynopsisScholars in the history of medicine, nursing, and public policy, those interested in the intersections of identity, work, gender, education, and race, and nurses will find this a provocative book.
Trade ReviewA valuable resource and an excellent addition to any library's collection for those interested in the history of nursing and the struggle of a profession to become autonomous. Doody's Review Service 2010 This new book is both a remarkable story about a noble profession and a rich illustration of the important place of the scholarly press. -- Dan Doody MedInfoNow 2010 A rich analysis. Bookwatch 2010 The vignettes in this book provoke images of nurses not as powerless but rather as strong, often independent, women who take life fully into their own hands. -- Peter I. Buerhaus JAMA 2010 Recommended. Choice 2011
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nurses and Physicians in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
2. Competence, Coolness, Courage—and Control
3. They Went Nursing—in Early Twentieth-Century America
4. Wives, Mothers—and Nurses
5. Race, Place, and Professional Identity
6. A Tale of Two Associations: White and African AmericanNurses in North Carolina
7. Who Is a Nurse?
Appendix
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
