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Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nursesâ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 -- .

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. ‘To help a million sick, you must kill a few nurses’: the impact of the campaign for professional status on nurses’ health, 1890–1914
2. The First World War and nurses’ choice of occupational representation
3. Nurses’ Registration Act, 1919
4. ‘The disease which is most feared’: the problem of tuberculosis and its threat to nurses’ health, 1880–1950
5. Industrial psychology’s influence on the recruitment and welfare of general and mental nurses, 1930–48
Conclusion
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/02/2014
      ISBN13: 9780719090875, 978-0719090875
      ISBN10: 719090873

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nursesâ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. ‘To help a million sick, you must kill a few nurses’: the impact of the campaign for professional status on nurses’ health, 1890–1914
      2. The First World War and nurses’ choice of occupational representation
      3. Nurses’ Registration Act, 1919
      4. ‘The disease which is most feared’: the problem of tuberculosis and its threat to nurses’ health, 1880–1950
      5. Industrial psychology’s influence on the recruitment and welfare of general and mental nurses, 1930–48
      Conclusion
      Index

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