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Klappentext Ordered to Care examines the ideology! practice! and efforts at reforming American nursing from 1850 1945. Zusammenfassung Ordered to Care provides an overall history of American nursing's development and examines the context of women's history and the social history of health care. She discusses why nursing will have to move beyond its obligation to care! and what the implications of this change would be for all of us. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the dilemma of caring; Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training: 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade; 2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing; Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty: 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline; 4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine; 5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse; 6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation; Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing: 7. Professionalization and its discontents; 8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science; 9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships'; 10. Great transformation, small change; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Note on sources; Select bibliography of primary sources; Index.
