(2 reviews) Author: Visit Amazon's Patricia D'Antonio Page ISBN : 9780801895647 New from Format: PDFReview
Patricia D'Antonio's argument will upend many of the standard beliefs about nursing and its history. She stays sensitive to the psychological and cultural tropes and debates while demonstrating a wildly sophisticated historical imagination and scholarly apparatus. This will become the book on the history of nursing.
(Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College)A valuable resource and an excellent addition to any library's collection for those interested in the history of nursing and the struggle of a profession to become autonomous.
(Doody's Review Service 2010-01-00)This new book is both a remarkable story about a noble profession and a rich illustration of the important place of the scholarly press.
(Dan Doody MedInfoNow 2010-01-00)A rich analysis.
(Bookwatch 2010-01-00)The vignettes in this book provoke images of nurses not as powerless but rather as strong, often independent, women who take life fully into their own hands.
(Peter I. Buerhaus JAMA 2010-01-00)[D'Antonio] posits that people chose nursing because of the meaning and power that a nursing identity brought to their lives within both family and community and over a lifetime.
(Choice 2011-01-00)Ambitious history of women and work... The strengths of this book are many.
(Susan L. Smith American Historical Review 2011-01-00)About the Author
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.
- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (June 2, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801895642
- ISBN-13: 978-0801895647
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.1 x 9.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
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