Title:
Nursing history and the politics of welfare / edited by Anne Marie Rafferty, Jane Robinson, and Ruth Elkan.
Author:
Rafferty, Anne Marie.
Robinson, Jane, 1935-
Elkan, Ruth, 1954-
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Call Number:
RT31 .N864 1996
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/96019933-d.html
ISBN:
9780415138352
9780415138369
Physical Description:
xi, 283 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
1. Nursing under totalitarian regimes: the case of National Socialism / Hilde Steppe -- 2. The legacy of the history of nursing for post-apartheid South Africa / Shula Marks -- 3. The Rockefeller Agenda for American/Philippines nursing relations / Barbara L. Brush -- 4. Rescue and redemption -- the rise of female medical missions in colonial India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Rosemary Fitzgerald -- 5. Outside the profession: nursing staff on Robben Island, 1846-1910 / Harriet Deacon -- 6. Convicts and care giving in colonial Australia, 1788-1868 / Angela Cushing -- 7. Independent women: domiciliary nurses in mid-nineteenth-century Edinburgh / Barbara Mortimer -- 8. Ordered to care?: professionalization, gender and the language of training, 1915-37 / Tom Olson -- 9. Ambivalence about nursing's expertise: the role of a gendered holistic ideology in nursing, 1890-1990 / Geertje Boschma.
