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The Nurse in Popular Media: Critical Essays

By Marcus K. Harmes (Editor), Barbara Harmes (Editor), Meredith A. Harmes (Editor)
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By Marcus K. Harmes (Editor), Barbara Harmes (Editor), Meredith A. Harmes (Editor)
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The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence Nightingale's voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses, good, bad or otherwise, has appeared on both cinema and television screens. How do we interpret the many different types of nurses—real and fictional, lifelike and distorted, sexual and forbidding—who are so visible in the public consciousness?

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