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New directions in the history of nursing : international perspectives / edited by Barbara Mortimer and Susan McGann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine, 18Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: (xiv, 207 pages) : illustrations 1 online resourceISBN:
  • 9780415511117
  • 9780203403631
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RT31 N42
Contents:
1. Introduction: the history of nursing: yesterday, today and tomorrow / Barbara Mortimer -- 2. Ethical lives in the early nineteenth century: nursing and a history of caring / Julia Hallam -- 3. Bergljot Larsson (1883-1968), founder and leader of the Norwegian Nursing Association: a case study of the influence of international nursing / Sigrun Hvalvik -- 4. Puerperal fever as a source of conflict between midwives and medical men in eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century Britain / Christine E. Hallett -- 5. Sanba and their clients: midwives and the medicalization of childbirth in Japan 1868 to c. 1920 / Aya Homei -- 6. US organized medicine's perspective of nursing: review of the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1883-1935 / Brigid Lusk and Julie Fisher Robertson -- 7. Race, identity and the nursing profession in South Africa, c. 1850-1958 / Helen Sweet and Anne Digby -- 8.Health care and nursing coordination during the Nazi era in the region of Osnabrück / Mathilde Hackmann -- 9. 'In England we did nursing': Caribbean and British nurses in Great Britain and Canada, 1950-70 / Margaret Shkimba and Karen Flynn -- 10. 'Beware of worthless imitations': advertising in nursing periodicals, c. 1888-1945 / Elaine Thomson -- 11. Exploring the maternity archive of the St. Helens Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, 1907-22: an historian and midwife collaborate / Pamela J. Wood and Maralyn Foureur -- 12. Common working ground / Joan E. Lynaugh.
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Includes index

1. Introduction: the history of nursing: yesterday, today and tomorrow / Barbara Mortimer --
2. Ethical lives in the early nineteenth century: nursing and a history of caring / Julia Hallam --
3. Bergljot Larsson (1883-1968), founder and leader of the Norwegian Nursing Association: a case study of the influence of international nursing / Sigrun Hvalvik --
4. Puerperal fever as a source of conflict between midwives and medical men in eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century Britain / Christine E. Hallett --
5. Sanba and their clients: midwives and the medicalization of childbirth in Japan 1868 to c. 1920 / Aya Homei --
6. US organized medicine's perspective of nursing: review of the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1883-1935 / Brigid Lusk and Julie Fisher Robertson --
7. Race, identity and the nursing profession in South Africa, c. 1850-1958 / Helen Sweet and Anne Digby --
8.Health care and nursing coordination during the Nazi era in the region of Osnabrück / Mathilde Hackmann --
9. 'In England we did nursing': Caribbean and British nurses in Great Britain and Canada, 1950-70 / Margaret Shkimba and Karen Flynn --
10. 'Beware of worthless imitations': advertising in nursing periodicals, c. 1888-1945 / Elaine Thomson --
11. Exploring the maternity archive of the St. Helens Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, 1907-22: an historian and midwife collaborate / Pamela J. Wood and Maralyn Foureur --
12. Common working ground / Joan E. Lynaugh.

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