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This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurse's work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organisation, training, conditions of service and workload.
List of contents
List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Glossary and Conventions Introduction PART 1: The history of District Nursing. Chapter 1 Historical Trajectories: c1850-1919 Chapter 2 What became of the Lady? The inter-war period 1919-1939 Chapter 3 War to Welfare State: 1939-1948 Chapter 4 Changing places: 1948-Project 2000 PART 2: Themes and Issues: The district nurse and the changing world of primary health care. Chapter 5 Town nurse, country nurse: district nursing landscape Chapter 6 Technology, treatment and TLC Chapter 7 Generals and Generalists Chapter 8 Language of Caring: Care and nurses’ lives. Chapter 9 Portraits of a District Nurse Chapter 10 Conclusion Bibliography
About the author
Dr Helen Sweet is currently working at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, as a Research Associate.
Dr Rona Dougall is research Assistant at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow.
Summary
This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurse?s work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organisation, training, conditions of service and workload.
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'This book makes a significant contribution to the history of caring so needed anlongside the predominance of histories of management and professional formation in the canon of nursing publications.' – Medical History
