Description
Book SynopsisContains eleven landmark essays that explore the significance and meaning of nursing, with a wide geographic range that expands the existing literature on nursing work
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Histories of nursing practice – Christine Hallett, Gerard Fealy
Part I: Care and cure in nursing work
1. Baby and infant healthcare in Dresden, 1897–1930 – Bettina Blessing
2. The taste of war: the meaning of food to New Zealand and Australian nurses far from home in World War One, 1915–18 – Pamela J. Wood and Sara Knight
3. ‘In the company of those similarly afflicted’: the sanatorium patient and sanatorium nursing, c.1908–52 – Martin S. McNamara and Gerard Fealy
4. 'Hurting and caring': nursing burned children in the Chicago School fire disaster, 1958 – Barbara Brodie
5. A poverty of leadership: nursing older people in English hospitals, 1945–80 – Jane Brooks
6. Beyond the cuckoo’s nest: Nurses and ECT in Dutch psychiatry, 1940–2010 – Geertje Boschma
Part II: Public health and nursing work
7. The cholera epidemic of 1892 and its impact on modernising public health and nursing in Hamburg – Mathilde Hackmann
8. ‘Some kindred form of medical social work’: defining the boundaries of social work, health visiting, public health nursing in Europe, 1918–25 – Jaime Lapeyre
9. ‘Community health care’: Struggles and conflicts of an emerging public health system in the United States, 1915–45 – Rima Apple
10. Nurses in schools, coal towns and migrant camps: bringing health care to rural America, 1900–50 – John Kirchgessner, Arlene Keeling and Mary Gibson
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