On all frontiers : four centuries of Canadian nursing / editors, Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, Nicole Rousseau.

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TextPublication details: Ottawa [Ont.] : Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa = University of Ottawa Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780776616674
0776616676

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: On All Frontiers : Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing.DDC classification:

610.73/0971 22

LOC classification:

RT6.A1 O54 2005eb

NLM classification:

2005 J-077
WY 11 DC2

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Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: In the Home; Chapter 1 Lay Nursing from the New France Era to the End of the Nineteenth Century (1608-1891); Chapter 2 Canadian Midwifery: Blending Traditional and Modern Practices; Chapter 3 The Trained Nurse: Private Duty and VON Home Nursing (Late 1800s to 1940s); Part Two: In the Hospital; Chapter 4 Healing the Body and Saving the Soul: Nursing Sisters and the First Catholic Hospitals in Quebec (1639-1880); Chapter 5 The Nightingale Influence and the Rise of the Modern Hospital.

Summary: Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life. On All Frontiers is a comprehensive history of Canadian nursing. Editors Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau have brought together a vast body of research into one volume. Authored by leading experts, the chapters and vignettes form an overview of the history of Canadian nursing to date. From the midwives of early Canada to urban public health nurses, from remote outposts to the battlefields of Europe.

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Issued also in French under title: Sans frontières : quatre siècles de soins infirmiers canadiens.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246).

Co-published by: Canadian Museum of Civilization.

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Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life. On All Frontiers is a comprehensive history of Canadian nursing. Editors Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau have brought together a vast body of research into one volume. Authored by leading experts, the chapters and vignettes form an overview of the history of Canadian nursing to date. From the midwives of early Canada to urban public health nurses, from remote outposts to the battlefields of Europe.

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