Enduring Issues in American NursingNamed an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 by Choice!
Why turn to the past when attempting to build nursing's future?...To make good decisions in planning nursing's future in the context of our complex health care system, nurses must know the history of the actions being considered, the identities and points of view of the major players, and all the stakes that are at risk. These are the lessons of history." This book presents nursing history in the context of problems and issues that persist to this day. Issues such as professional autonomy, working conditions, relationships with other health professionals, appropriate knowledge for education and licensure, gender, class, and race are traced through the stories told in this volume. Each chapter provides a piece of the puzzle that is nursing. The editors, all noted nurse historians and educators, have carefully made selections from the best that has been published in the nursing and health care literature. |
Contents
Nursings History Looking Backward and Seeing Forward | 10 |
The Intersection of Race Class and Gender in the Nursing Profession | 25 |
Identity The Meaning of Nursing | 37 |
Introduction | 39 |
Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s | 42 |
Discipline Obedience and Female Support Groups Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing 19151918 | 85 |
To Cultivate a Feeling of Confidence The Nursing of Obstetric Patients 18901940 | 106 |
Midwives as Wives and Mothers Urban Midwives in the Early Twentieth Century | 130 |
The Physicians Eyes American Nursing and the Diagnostic Revolution in Medicine | 201 |
The Nature of Nursing Knowledge | 235 |
Introduction | 237 |
Constructing the Mind of Nursing | 240 |
A Legitimate Relationship Nursing Hospitals and Science in the Twentieth Century | 262 |
Lavinia Lloyd Dock The Henry Street Years | 282 |
Delegated by Default or Negotiated by Need? Physicians Nurse Practitioners and the Process of Clinical Thinking | 309 |
Conclusion | 335 |
The Nature of Power and Authority in Nursing | 145 |
Introduction | 147 |
Aspirations Unattained The Story of the Illinois Training Schools Search for University Status | 150 |
Guarded by Standards and Directed by Strangers Charleston South Carolinas Response to a National Health Care Agenda 19201930 | 165 |
Strange Young Women on Errands Obstetric Nursing Between Two Worlds | 180 |