Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain / Helen M. Sweet ; with Rona Dougall.

  • Sweet, Helen M.
Date:
2008
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Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Routledge, 2008.

Physical description

xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents

Historical trajectories: background, c.1850-1919 -- What became of the lady? The interwar period, 1919-1939 -- War to welfare state, 1939-1948 -- Changing places, 1948-1979 -- Town nurse, country nurse: district nursing landscape -- Technology, treatment, and TLC -- Generalists and generals: district nursing professionalisation -- Language of caring: care and nurses' lives -- Portraits of a district nurse -- Discussion and conclusion.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    CBX /SWE
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  • 9780415956345
  • 041595634X
  • 9780203933725
  • 0203933729