Sweet / Dougall Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-135-91198-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, training, conditions of service, and workload.

A strong oral history component provides a unique insight into the professional images of district nursing and the complexities of inter- and intra-professional relationships as well as into the changing day-to-day working experiences of the district nurse at ‘grass-roots’ level. Use of oral history and records of individual nurses attempts to rectify the tendency of nursing history to view nurses as if they were a homogenous group of professionals, thereby recognizing the different experiences of nurses in different regions and environments.

The book also considers the degree of influence of medically related technologies and of developments in drugs, materials, communications, and transport on the professional development of district nursing. The work addresses issues of gender relationships central to a nursing profession largely composed of women (throughout much of the period) working alongside a largely male-dominated medical profession.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sweet, Helen M.

Dougall, with Rona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Glossary and Conventions

Introduction

PART 1: The history of District Nursing.

Chapter 1 "Historical Trajectories: c1850-1919"

Chapter 2 "What became of the Lady? The inter-war period 1919-1939"

Chapter 3 "War to Welfare State: 1939-1948

Chapter 4 "Changing places: 1948-Project 2000"

PART 2: Themes and Issues: The district nurse and the changing world of primary health care.

Chapter 5 "Town nurse, country nurse: district nursing landscape"

Chapter 6 "Technology, treatment and TLC"

Chapter 7 "Generals and Generalists"

Chapter 8 "Language of Caring: Care and nurses’ lives".

Chapter 9 "Portraits of a District Nurse"

Chapter 10 Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Helen Sweet is currently working at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, as a Research Associate.

Dr Rona Dougall is research Assistant at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow.