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Bedside matters : the transformation of Canadian nursing, 1900-1990 /

Combining archival records and oral histories, the author shows how nurses, in their work, activities, and social and sexual attitudes, sought recognition as skilled workers in the health-care system.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McPherson, Kathryn M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Colección:Canadian social history series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1
  • Gender, class, and ethnicity: reconceptualizing the history of nursing
  • 2
  • Nursing classes: The second generation of trained nurses, 1900– 1920
  • 3
  • Rituals and resistance: The content of nurses’ work, 1900– 1942
  • 4
  • An occupation in crisis: The third generation of Canadian nurses, 1920– 1942
  • 5
  • ‘The case of the kissing nurse’: femininity, sociability, and sexuality, 1920– 1968
  • 6
  • Contradictions and continuities: the fourth generation of Canadian nurses, 1942– 1968
  • 7
  • ‘The price of generations’: Canadian nursing under medicare, 1968– 1990
  • Notes
  • Suggested readings in nursing history
  • Index.