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Synopsis
Ordered to Care examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reforming American nursing from 1850-1945.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the dilemma of caring; Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training: 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade; 2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing; Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty: 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline; 4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine; 5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse; 6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation; Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing: 7. Professionalization and its discontents; 8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science; 9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships'; 10. Great transformation, small change; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Note on sources; Select bibliography of primary sources; Index.