Rewriting Nursing History

First published in 1980, this book written by nurses, historians and sociologists, challenges conventional forms of nursing history. Rather than a chronology of events or a focus on great men or women as instigators of change, the contributions address specific questions to historical data, posing and evaluating contrasting interpretations.

List of contents

Preface. 1. Introduction: The Contemporary Challenge in Nursing History Celia Davies 2. Nurse Recruitment to Four Provincial Hospitals 1881-1921 Christopher Maggs 3. From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897 Katherine Williams 4. The Administration of Poverty and the Development of Nursing Practice in Nineteenth-Century England Mitchell Dean and Gail Bolton 5. A Constant Casualty: Nurse Education in Britain and the USA to 1939 Celia Davies 6. Asylum Nursing Before 1914: A Chapter in the History of Labour Mick Carpenter 7. 'The History of the Present' - Contradiction and Struggle in Nursing Paul Bellaby and Patrick Oribabor 8. Old Wives' Tales? Women Healers in English History Margaret Connor Versluysen 9. Archives and the History of Nursing Janet Foster and Julia Sheppard 10. Epilogue Charlotte Kratz. Notes on Contributors. Index.

About the author

Celia Davies was, at the time of original publication, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

Product details

• Authors: Celia Davies
• Assisted by: Celia Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9781041072027
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4107202-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Nursing, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history