Social change and attitude to care -- Change and care before the reformation -- The sixteenth-century transition -- New approaches to care -- The growth of hospitals in eighteenth-century England -- The deserving and the undeserving poor -- Those of unsound mind -- Local government and sanitary reform -- The influence of Florence Nightingale -- Nursing reforms extended -- Towards a health service -- Registration and the growth of nursing organisations -- Social change and nursing in the inter-war years -- The legacy of the Second World War.
The health problems of the world / Muriel Skeet -- International and inter-regional organisations / Shelagh Murphy.
The national health service -- Adapting nursing to new demands -- New demands on nursing -- Who will nurse the patients of tomorrow? -- New problems for old in the community -- Mental health nursing-origins and developments / Peter Nolan -- Health at work / Paul Lloyd, Mavis Gordon -- Nurses as managers / June Clark -- Nursing education-r̀eports are not self-executive' / Margaret Green -- Nursing research / June Clark -- The road to reorganisation -- Monica E. Baly, June Clark -- Nursing, economic change and industrial relations / Val Cowie.