a British social history of fever nursing : a national service /
Margaret R. Currie.
New York :
Routledge,
2005.
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) :
illustrations, portraits
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Institutions and the evolution of nursing care -- 3. State registration to the decline of fever nursing -- 4. The reality of fever nursing, 1921-71 -- 5. Smallpox nursing -- 6. Fever nurse Cavell in the 1890s -- 7. Two influential fever nurses -- 8. The aftermath of fever and smallpox nursing -- 9. Conclusion.
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This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. It provides new insights into the development of nursing roles and nurse education and looks at the lives of key figures at that time. The text examines how this once important branch of the nursing profession emerged in the nineteenth century, only to be discarded in the second half of the following century. Drawing on the work of Goffman and Foucault, the study shows how, aided by medical advances, fever nurses transfo.
Fever hospitals and fever nurses.
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Fever-- Patients-- Hospital care-- Great Britain-- History.