Bedside Matters : : The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990 / / Kathryn McPherson.
Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Gender, Class, and Ethnicity: Reconceptualizing the History of Nursing
- 2. Nursing Classes: The Second Generation of Trained Nurses, 1900-1920
- 3. Rituals and Resistance: The Content of Nurses'Work, 1900-1942
- 4. An Occupation in Crisis: The Third Generation of Canadian Nurses, 1920-1942
- 5. 'The Case of the Kissing Nurse': Femininity, Sociability, and Sexuality, 1920-1968
- 6. Contradictions and Continuities: The Fourth Generation of Canadian Nurses, 1942-1968
- 7. 'The Price of Generations': Canadian Nursing Under Medicare, 1968-1990
- Notes
- Suggested Readings in Nursing History
- Index
- Backmatter