Fever hospitals and fever nurses : a British social history of fever nursing : a national service /
This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. It provides new insights into the development of nursing roles and nurse education and looks at the lives of key figures at that time....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. It provides new insights into the development of nursing roles and nurse education and looks at the lives of key figures at that time. The text examines how this once important branch of the nursing profession emerged in the nineteenth century, only to be discarded in the second half of the following century. Drawing on the work of Goffman and Foucault, the study shows how, aided by medical advances, fever nurses transfo. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index. |
ISBN: | 0203023056 9780203023051 9780203698402 0203698401 9781134265275 1134265271 9781134265220 1134265220 9781134265268 1134265263 9780415351645 0415351642 9780415647762 0415647762 1280231742 9781280231742 9786610231744 6610231745 |