American nursing : a history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work / Patricia D'Antonio.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

xviii, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nursing and physicians in nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Competence, coolness, courage, and control -- They went nursing, in early twentieth-century America -- Wives, mothers, and nurses -- Race, place, and professional identity -- A tale of two associations : White and African American nurses in North Carolina -- Who is a nurse?