List of tables and figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: the dilemma of caring
Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training: 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade
2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing
Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty: 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline
4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine
5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse
6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation
Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing: 7. Professionalization and its discontents
8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science
9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships'
10. Great transformation, small change
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Note on sources
Select bibliography of primary sources
Index.
