a British social history of fever nursing : a national service /
First Statement of Responsibility
Margaret R. Currie.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, portraits
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Fever hospitals and fever nurses.
International Standard Book Number
0415351642
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fever-- Patients-- Hospital care-- Great Britain-- History.