Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 PDF

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An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untrained nurses in the years between 1850 and 1945. Ordered to Care provides an overall history of nursing's development and places that growth within the context of new questions raised by women's history and the social history of health care. Building upon extensive use of primary and quantitative data, the author creates a collective portrait of nursing, from the work of the individual nurse to the political efforts of its organizations. Dr. Reverby contends that nursing's contemporary difficulties are caused by its historical obligation to care in a society that refuses to value caring. She examines the historical consequences of this critical dilemma and concludes with a discussion of why nursing will have to move beyond its obligation to care, and what the implications of this change would be for all of us.

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• Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (August 28, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521335655
• ISBN-13: 978-0521335652
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.9 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 PDF

I enjoyed this book immensely. The author chronicles the history of nursing from pre-training schools to post-WW11. The author is not a nurse and her focus is on the history of women in society. The book is broken down into three parts - the nurse and the hospital before training (two chapters), the trained nurse: an apprentice to duty (four chapters), and the "re-forming" of nursing (four chapters). The style is easy to read and very detailed with narratives, biographies, and statistics. Anyone who is interested in the history of nursing should read this book.

By Lorie

This text is the foremost in documented nursing history. The references and citations are well researched and edited. There are few books about nursing's beginning to the mid-20th century -this one is the best!

By Nancy