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

  • D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Physical description

xviii, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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?

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CBX.6
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ISBN

  • 9780801895647
  • 0801895642
  • 9780801895654
  • 0801895650