American Nursing - A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work

Informationen zum Autor Patricia D'Antonio is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the associate director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Senior Fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute. She is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester's School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work; a coeditor of Nurses' Work: Issues across Time and Place and Enduring Issues in American Nursing , and the author of Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia . Zusammenfassung Offers a fresh interpretation of the history of nursing in the US that captures the many ways women reframed the most traditional of all gender expectations - that of caring for the sick - to create new possibilities for themselves! to renegotiate the terms of some of their life experiences! and to reshape their own sense of worth and power.

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Patricia D'Antonio is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the associate director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Senior Fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute. She is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester's School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work; a coeditor of Nurses' Work: Issues across Time and Place and Enduring Issues in American Nursing, and the author of Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.

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• Authors: Patricia Antonio, D&apos, Patricia D'Antonio, Patricia (Associate Professor D'Antonio, Patricia D''antonio, Patricia (Associate Professor D''antonio
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2010
• EAN: 9780801895647
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9564-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / Nursing / Social, Ethical & Legal Issues, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Nursing Sociology