Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain.
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine Series | v.30Publication details: Florence : Taylor & Francis Group, 2007 ©2007Edition: 1st edISBN:- 9780203933725
- 610.734309410904
Community health nursing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Primary health care -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Remote;text;Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary and Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I: The History of District Nursing -- 1 Historical Trajectories: Background, c. 1850-1919 -- 2 What Became of the Lady? The Interwar Period, 1919-1939 -- 3 War to Welfare State, 1939-1948 -- 4 Changing Places, 1948-1979 -- Part II: Themes and Issues -- 5 Town Nurse, Country Nurse: District Nursing Landscape -- 6 Technology, Treatment, and TLC -- 7 Generalists and Generals: District Nursing Professionalisation -- 8 Language of Caring: Care and Nurses' Lives -- 9 Portraits of a District Nurse -- 10 Discussion and Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index.;This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurse's work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organisation, training, conditions of service and workload.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary and Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I: The History of District Nursing -- 1 Historical Trajectories: Background, c. 1850-1919 -- 2 What Became of the Lady? The Interwar Period, 1919-1939 -- 3 War to Welfare State, 1939-1948 -- 4 Changing Places, 1948-1979 -- Part II: Themes and Issues -- 5 Town Nurse, Country Nurse: District Nursing Landscape -- 6 Technology, Treatment, and TLC -- 7 Generalists and Generals: District Nursing Professionalisation -- 8 Language of Caring: Care and Nurses' Lives -- 9 Portraits of a District Nurse -- 10 Discussion and Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index.
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This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurse's work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organisation, training, conditions of service and workload.