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Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850 1945

Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850 1945

Reverby, Susan M.
Reverby
Susan M., Reverby

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0521335655
ISBN13: 9780521335652
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 28 1987
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untrained nurses in the years between 1850 and 1945. Ordered to Care provides an overall history of nursing's development and places that growth within the context of new questions raised by women's history and the social history of health care. Building upon extensive use of primary and quantitative data, the author creates a collective portrait of nursing, from the work of the individual nurse to the political efforts of its organizations. Dr. Reverby contends that nursing's contemporary difficulties are caused by its historical obligation to care in a society that refuses to value caring. She examines the historical consequences of this critical dilemma and concludes with a discussion of why nursing will have to move beyond its obligation to care, and what the implications of this change would be for all of us.

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