Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945An 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. |
Contents
Introduction The dilemma of caring | 1 |
from duty to trade II | 11 |
Chaos and order in hospital nursing | 22 |
the ideology of discipline | 39 |
the pupil nurse as hospital machine | 60 |
Professionalization and its discontents | 121 |
Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science | 143 |
The limits of collaborative relationships | 159 |
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Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 Susan M. Reverby No preview available - 1987 |
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