American nursing : a history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work
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- ISBN: 9780801895647
- ISBN: 0801895642
- ISBN: 9780801895654
- ISBN: 0801895650
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xviii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2010.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Nursing and physicians in nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Competence, coolness, courage, and control -- They went nursing, in early twentieth-century America -- Wives, mothers, and nurses -- Race, place, and professional identity -- A tale of two associations : White and African American nurses in North Carolina -- Who is a nurse? |
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Subject: | Nursing United States History History of Nursing Nurse's Role history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century United States |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RT 4 .D36 2010 | 30775305510753 | General Collection | Available | - |
American Nursing : A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work
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American Nursing : A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work
Patricia D'Antonio is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the associate director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Senior Fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute. She is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester's School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work; a coeditor of Nurses' Work: Issues across Time and Place and Enduring Issues in American Nursing , and the author of Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia .