Ordered to Care The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945

Name: Ordered to Care The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945
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ISBN: 9780521335652

ISBN-10: 0521335655

ISBN-13: 9780521335652

Edition: 1987

Authors: Susan M. Reverby

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An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untrained nurses in the years between 1850 and 1945. Ordered to Care provides an overall history of nursing's development and places that growth within the context of new questions raised by women's history and the social history of health care. Building upon extensive use of primary and quantitative data, the author creates a collective portrait of nursing, from the work of the individual nurse to the political efforts of its organizations. Dr. Reverby contends that nursing's contemporary difficulties are caused by its historical obligation to care…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of tables and figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction: the dilemma of caring



The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training



'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade



Chaos and order in hospital nursing



The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty



Character as skill: the ideology of discipline



Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine



'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse



Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation



The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing



Professionalization and its discontents



Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science



The limits of 'collaborative relationships'



Great transformation, small change


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Note on sources


Select bibliography of primary sources


Index