Histories of nursing practice / edited by Gerard M. Fealy, Christine E. Hallet, and Susanne Malchau Dietz.

Based on papers presented at the international conference 'Nursing History in a Global Perspective' held August 2012 in Kolding, Denmark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Histories of nursing practice / Christine E. Hallett and Gerard M. Fealy -- Baby and infant healthcare in Dresden, 1897-1930 / Bettina Blessing -- The taste of war : the meaning of food to New Zealand and Australian nurses far from home in World War I, 1915-18 / Pamela J. Wood and Sara Knight -- 'In the company of those similarly afflicted' : the sanatorium patient and sanatorium nursing, c. 1908-52 / Martin S. McNamara and Gerard M. Fealy -- 'Hurting and caring' : nursing burned children in the Chicago school fire disaster, 1958 / Barbara Brodie -- A poverty of leadership : nursing older people in British hospitals, 1945-80 / Jane Brooks -- Beyond the cuckoo's nest : nurses and ECT in Dutch psychiatry, 1940-2010 / Geertje Boschma -- The cholera epidemic of 1892 and its impact on modernising public health and nursing in Hamburg / Mathilde Hackmann -- 'Some kindred form of medical social work' : defining the boundaries of social work, health visiting and public health nursing in Europe, 1918-25 / Jaime Lapeyre -- 'Community healthcare' : struggles and conflicts of an emerging public health system in the United States, 1915-45 / Rima D. Apple -- Nurses in schools, coal towns and migrant camps : bringing healthcare to rural America, 1900-50 / John Kirchgessner, Arlene W. Keeling and Mary E. Gibson.

Title from book home page (EBL, viewed August 2, 2016).

'This book examines the history of nursing practice in Europe and North America. It differs from most other studies of nursing history by focusing on the actual clinical work of nurses. It explores two broad categories of nursing work: the 'hands-on' clinical work of treatment and care; and the work of health screening, health education and public health crisis management. The book contains ten detailed historical case studies of nursing practice across diverse settings in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as examining 'what nurses did', it explores the significance and meaning of nursing work, for nurses themselves, their patients and their communities, and examines developments in practice against a backdrop of social, cultural, political and economic drivers and constraints. The book sets the history of nursing practice within time, place and context, but demonstrates remarkable commonalities and continuities across geographical and temporal borders. It presents examples of how practice made a distinct nursing contribution to the development of modern health systems and how it became a potent resource for disciplinary development. With its focus on the history of practice, this book should be of interest to academics and clinical nurses alike. It is also an ideal textbook for undergraduate nursing programmes, providing students with rich accounts of the history of their own disciplinary practice.The book is written by leading scholars of nursing history in Europe, North America and Australasia' --Back cover.

How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system? This book provides some important answers to this question. It traces the history and development of nursing practice in Europe and North America, exploring two broad categories of nursing work: the 'hands-on' clinical work of nurses in hospitals and the work of nurses in public health, which involved health screening, health education and public health crisis management. The book contains rich case studies of nursing practice across diverse settings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as examining 'what nurses did', it explores the significance and meaning of nursing work, for nurses themselves, their patients and their communities, and examines developments in practice against a backdrop of social, cultural, political and economic drivers and constraints.This book will be of interest to academics and clinical nurses alike. It is also an ideal textbook for undergraduate nursing programmes, providing students with rich accounts of the history of their own disciplinary practice.

In English.

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