The Nurse in Popular Media : : Critical Essays.
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 a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Jefferson : : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
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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.