Author: Patricia D'Antonio ISBN : Product Detai New from Format: PDFThis new interpretation of the history of nursing in the United States captures the many ways women reframed the most traditional of all gender expectations -- that of caring for the sick -- to create new possibilities for themselves, to renegotiate the terms of some of their life experiences, and to reshape their own sense of worth and power.
For much of modern U.S. history, nursing was informal, often uncompensated, and almost wholly the province of female family and community members. This began to change at the end of the nineteenth century when the prospect of formal training opened for women doors that had been previously closed. Nurses became respected professionals, and becoming a formally trained nurse granted women a range of new social choices and opportunities that eventually translated into economic mobility and stability.
Patricia D'Antonio looks closely at this history -- using a new analytic framework and a rich trove of archival sources -- and finds complex, multiple meanings in the individual choices of women who elected a nursing career. New relationships and social and professional options empowered nurses in constructing consequential lives, supporting their families, and participating both in their communities and in the health care system.
Narrating the experiences of nurses, D'Antonio captures the possibilities, power, and problems inherent in the different ways women defined their work and lived their lives. Scholars in the history of medicine, nursing, and public policy, those interested in the intersections of identity, work, gender, education, and race, and nurses will find this a provocative book.
Direct download links available for PRETITLE American Nursing [Kindle Edition] POSTTITLE- File Size: 1262 KB
- Print Length: 272 pages
- Publisher: JHUP; 1 edition (February 6, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00400OHW8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,657 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
American Nursing PDF
AMERICAN NURSING: A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE, AUTHORITY, AND THE MEANING OF WORK provides a fine, original survey of the history of nursing in America, considering its change from an informal, near-volunteer role to one requiring formal training of primarily women. Nurses became professionals and offered women new choices and opportunities: this offers a rich analysis of the complex relationships between the evolving nursing role and women's changes.By Midwest Book Review
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the nursing profession. It includes challenges related to authority and male/female roles, physician/nurse conflicts, role challenges, and increasing complexity and responsibilities coupled with continued negative work cultures.By BJC
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