Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot....This is a brilliant book, and DiGregorio is a beautiful writer. Taking Care deserves to be on the reading list for nursing and medical schools, and on the bedside table of all politicians."-New York Times Book Review

In this sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, the critically ...