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Who cared for the carers? : a history of the occupational health of nurses, 1880-1948 /
Debbie Palmer compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process she reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Nursing history and humanities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Who cared for the carers?; Contents; Acknowledgements ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction; 1 'To help a million sick, you must kill a few nurses': the impact of the campaign for professional status on nurses' health, 1890-1914; 2 The First World War and nurses' choice of occupational representation; 3 The Nurses' Registration Act, 1919; 4 'The disease which is most feared': the problem of tuberculosis and its threat to nurses' health, 1880-1950; 5 Industrial psychology's influence on the recruitment and welfare of general and mental nurses, 1930-48; 6 Conclusion; Select bibliography.