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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A comprehensive history of nursing contends that its current dilemma is caused by the historical obligation "to care" in a society that refuses to value caring.
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I enjoyed this book immensely. The author chronicles the history of nursing from pre-training schools to post-WW11. The author is not a nurse and her focus is on the history of women in society. The book is broken down into three parts - the nurse and the hospital before training (two chapters), the trained nurse: an apprentice to duty (four chapters), and the "re-forming" of nursing (four chapters). The style is easy to read and very detailed with narratives, biographies, and statistics. Anyone who is interested in the history of nursing should read this book.
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This text is the foremost in documented nursing history. The references and citations are well researched and edited. There are few books about nursing's beginning to the mid-20th century -this one is the best!
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In the world of early nineteenth-century America, more defined by death and debility than our own, almost every woman could expect to spend some part of her life caring for the infirmities and illnesses of relatives or friends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In the world of early nineteenth-century America, more defined by death and debility than our own, almost every woman could expect to spend some part of her life caring for the infirmities and illnesses of relatives or friends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
training schools sample, grading committee, nursing superintendent, many nursing leaders, nursing work force, training school committee, professionalizing efforts, professional nursing associations, nursing workers, untrained nurses, nursing reformers, subsidiary workers, pupil nurse, nursing leadership, hospital standardization, graduate nurses, nursing educators, nursing history, institutional nursing, hospital training school, graduate service, group nursing, private duty, hospital superintendent, trained nursing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Massachusetts General, Boston City Hospital, Long Island, Adelaide Nutting, United States, Civil War, Lavinia Dock, New England, World War, American Hospital Association, American Journal of Nursing, Boston Medical Library Directory, May Ayers Burgess, Waltham Training School, Annie Goodrich, Goldmark Report, Isabel Hampton Robb, Eliza Higgins, Janet Geister, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lucy Drown, Red Cross, Boston Lying-In Hospital, Charlotte Aikens New!
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- Health Care in America: Essays in Social History by David Rosner on 8 pages
- Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg on 7 pages
- History of Nursing by Mary Adelaide Nutting on 6 pages
- The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine by Morris J. Vogel on 6 pages
- A Sound Economic Basis for Schools of Nursing and Other Addresses (The History of American Nursing, vol 19) by Mary Adelaide Nutting on 6 pages
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- Intensifying Care: The Hospital Industry, Professionalization, and the Reorganization of the Nursing Labor Process (Critical Approaches in the Healt) by Robert L. Brannon on 7 pages
- The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by Jeffrey P. Baker MD PhD on 4 pages
- Still a Man's World: Men Who Do Women's Work (Men and Masculinity) by Christine L. Williams on 4 pages
- No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900 by Sandra Opdycke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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