The Nurse in Popular Media : : Critical Essays.

• Author: Harmes, Marcus K.
• TeilnehmendeR: Harmes, Barbara.; Harmes, Meredith A.
• Place / Publishing House: Jefferson : : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 pages)

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? This book is a comprehensive collection of unique insights from scholars across the Western world. Essays explore a diversity of nursing types that traverse popular characterizations of nurses from various time periods. The shifting roles of nurses are explored across media, including picture postcards, film, television, journalism and the collection and preservation of uniforms and memorabilia.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Introduction -- Section One. Contested Heroines -- Florence on Film -- "Women bow" -- The Death of Judy Hill -- A "Complex Personal Problem" -- M*A*S*H*e*d and Harassed? -- Section Two. Seeking the Ideal -- Caps, Capes, Pins and Scrapbooks -- Picture Perfect? -- Seeking Standards -- In Search of Sympathy -- Nostalgia for Spiritual Community Care -- Media Representation of the Nursing Queen Archetype in Their ­Socio-Cultural Context -- Section Three. When Nurses Go Wrong -- Not My Nurse -- Lesbians, Nymphomaniacs, and Enema Specialists -- Scary Women -- Eroticizing the Nurse -- About the Contributors -- Index.