Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare

by Ann Marie Rafferty (Editor), Jane Robinson (Editor)

Overview

A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses.
The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, The Phillipines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and propose strategies for achieving greater recognition for nursing, and bringing it into line with other related health care professions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134773534
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/04/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	438 KB

About the Author

Ann Marie Rafferty, Jane Robinson

Table of Contents

List of tables, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Nursing under totalitarian regimes: the case of National Socialism, 2 The legacy of the history of nursing for post-apartheid South Africa, 3 The Rockefeller Agenda for American/Philippines nursing relations, 4 Rescue and redemption—the rise of female medical missions in colonial India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 5 Outside the profession: nursing staff on Robben Island, 1846–1910, 6 Convicts and care giving in colonial Australia, 1788–1868, 7 Independent women: domiciliary nurses in midnineteenth- century Edinburgh, 8 Ordered to care?: professionalization, gender and the language of training, 1915–37, 9 Ambivalence about nursing’s expertise: the role of a 164 gendered holistic ideology in nursing, 1890–1990, 10 ‘For the benefit of mankind’: Nightingale’s legacy and hours of work in Australian nursing, 1868–1939, 11 Employment conditions for nurses in Australia during World War II, 12 Seeking jurisdiction: a sociological perspective on Rockefeller Foundation activities in nursing in the 1920s, 13 Children and state intervention: developing a coherent historical perspective, 14 Women and the politics of career development: the case of nursing, 15 Nurses in the archives: archival sources for nursing history, Index

Editorial Reviews

'A claim is made in the Introduction that nursing history if in the process of becoming a "robust and reflective scholarship". This claim is borne out by the general excellence of the papers presented and the book would be a worthy addition to the shelves of nursing & midwifery departmental Libraries in particular, and social studies in general.' - International History of Nursing Journal

'A breath of fresh air for teachers and students...should provide good bed-time reading for students coming up to exams. It should also occupy an important place on the bedroom shelf of any nurse with a professional interest in political issues.' - Nursing Times

'A valuable asset to tutors wanting to interest students in wider horizons and in what happened the day before yesterday and why.' - Monica Baly, Journal of Advanced Nursing

'Tackles some hitherto rather neglected but important issues in nursing history and continues with the trend set by Davies of looking at the experience of 'ordinary' nurses, rather than the 'heroic' figures around whom nursing history was so long focussed.' - British Journal of Midwifery

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