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Nursing and Social Change is essential reading for nurses who wish to understand how their profession had developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Now in its third edition the book has been completely revised to take into account the challenges facing nurses. Ten new chapters include contributions from senior members of the nursing profession who have been closely involved in the most recent health service reorganisation and the radical changes to nurse education.
Students and practitioners will find Nursing and Social Change invaluable as a comprehensive source of reference which offers a unique combination of scholarship and readability.
List of contents
Preface 1. Social Change and Attitudes to Care 2. Change and Care before the Reformation 3. The Sixteenth Century Transition 4. New Approaches to Care 5. The Growth of Hospitals in Eighteenth Century England 6. The Deserving and Undeserving Poor 7. Those of Unsound Mind 8. Local Government and Sanitary Reform 9. The Influence Of Florence Nightingale 10. Nursing Reforms Extended 11. Towards a Health Service 12. Registration and the Growth of Nursing Organisations 13. Social Change and Nursing in the Inter-war Years 14. The Legacy of the Second World War 15. The National Health Service 16. Adapting Nursing to New Demands 17. New Demands on Nursing 18. Who will nurse the Patients of Tomorrow? 19. New Problems for Old in the Community 20. Mental Health Nursing 21. Health at Work 22. Nurses as Managers 23. Nursing Education - `Reports are not Self-Executive' 23. Nursing Research 24. Reorganisation in the Health Service 25. Nursing, Economic Change and Industrial Relations 26. The Health Problems of the World 27. International and Inter-Regional Organisations Epilogue Index
About the author
Monica F. Baly
Summary
Third edition of an invaluable text examining how nursing has developed from its beginnings to the present day. Fully updated with ten new chapters, contributions take into account the challenges facing nurses today.
