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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.".
- catalog contributor b822495.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1987.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [277]-280.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the dilemma of caring -- Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training -- 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade -- 2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing -- Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty -- 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline -- 4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine -- 5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse -- 6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation -- Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing -- 7. Professionalization and its discontents -- 8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science -- 9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships' -- 10. Great transformation, small change".
- catalog extent "xiv, 286 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521256046".
- catalog identifier "0521335655 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge history of medicine".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "610.73/069 19".
- catalog subject "History of Nursing United States.".
- catalog subject "History of Nursing".
- catalog subject "Nursing United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Nursing United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "RT4 .R45 1987".
- catalog subject "WY 11 AA1 R452o 1987".
- catalog subject "Women's Rights United States History.".
- catalog subject "Women's Rights history".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the dilemma of caring -- Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training -- 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade -- 2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing -- Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty -- 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline -- 4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine -- 5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse -- 6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation -- Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing -- 7. Professionalization and its discontents -- 8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science -- 9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships' -- 10. Great transformation, small change".
- catalog title "Dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.".
- catalog title "Ordered to care : the dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945 / Susan M. Reverby.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".