Publication

1993-12-01 - Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780812214512
  • Open LibraryOL9504866M

First Sentence

Revisionist historical scholars have lately expanded the explanations of nursing's conception beyond "the great woman theory" of Nightingale's genius to suggest that American nursing's roots emanate from a blending of the ideology of domesticity with that of medical science (O'Brien 1987; Lynaugh and Fagin 1988); that nursing is a story of women workers' rationalizing the service industry (Melosh 1982); that nursing is the product of a group of enlightened leaders intent on reform and professionalization (Christy 1969); that nursing developed from the growth of paternalistic hospitals eager to manipulate females and to profit from nurses' work (Ashley 1976); that nursing emerged from interacting social and economic needs related to the care of the ill (Rosenberg 1987); that nursing became visible when philanthrophic women and physicians demanded that hospitals employ "lady" nurses (Mottus 1981); and that nursing gained its social and moral justification from its obligation to care (Reverby 1987).

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Other Editions

  • Nursing History Review: Official Journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing 1994 (Nursing History Review)PaperbackUniv of Pennsylvania Pr1993-12-01
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