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Informationen zum Autor Christine Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the University of Manchester Christine Hallett is Reader in Nursing History at the University of Manchester, and Director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery Christine E. Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, and is Director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing Susanne Malchau Dietz is Historian in Residence at the Danish Museum of Nursing History, Kolding, Denmark Klappentext This book examines the history of nursing practice in Europe and North America. It differs from most other studies of nursing history by focusing on the actual clinical work of nurses. It explores two broad categories of nursing work: the 'hands-on' clinical work of treatment and care; and the work of health screening, health education and public health crisis management. The book contains ten detailed historical case studies of nursing practice across diverse settings in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as examining 'what nurses did', it explores the significance and meaning of nursing work, for nurses themselves, their patients and their communities, and examines developments in practice against a backdrop of social, cultural, political and economic drivers and constraints. The book sets the history of nursing practice within time, place and context, but demonstrates remarkable commonalities and continuities across geographical and temporal borders. It presents examples of how practice made a distinct nursing contribution to the development of modern health systems and how it became a potent resource for disciplinary development. With its focus on the history of practice, this book should be of interest to academics and clinical nurses alike. It is also an ideal textbook for undergraduate nursing programmes, providing students with rich accounts of the history of their own disciplinary practice.The book is written by leading scholars of nursing history in Europe, North America and Australasia. Zusammenfassung Contains eleven landmark essays that explore the significance and meaning of nursing! with a wide geographic range that expands the existing literature on nursing work -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Histories of nursing practice - Christine Hallett, Gerard Fealy Part I: Care and cure in nursing work1. Baby and infant healthcare in Dresden, 1897-1930 - Bettina Blessing2. The taste of war: the meaning of food to New Zealand and Australian nurses far from home in World War One, 1915-18 - Pamela J. Wood and Sara Knight3. 'In the company of those similarly afflicted': the sanatorium patient and sanatorium nursing, c.1908-52 - Martin S. McNamara and Gerard Fealy4. 'Hurting and caring': nursing burned children in the Chicago School fire disaster, 1958 - Barbara Brodie5. A poverty of leadership: nursing older people in English hospitals, 1945-80 - Jane Brooks6. Beyond the cuckoo's nest: Nurses and ECT in Dutch psychiatry, 1940-2010 - Geertje BoschmaPart II: Public health and nursing work7. The cholera epidemic of 1892 and its impact on modernising public health and nursing in Hamburg - Mathilde Hackmann8. 'Some kindred form of medical social work': defining the boundaries of social work, health visiting, public health nursing in Europe, 1918-25 - Jaime Lapeyre9. 'Community health care': Struggles and conflicts of an emerging public health system in the United States, 1915-45 - Rima Apple10. Nurses in schools, coal towns and migrant camps: bringing health care to rural America, 1900-50 - John Kirchgessner, Arlene Keeling and Mary GibsonIndex...
