Deborah Palmer

Who cared for the carers? (eBook, ePUB)

A history of the occupational health of nurses, 1880-1948

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1958

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102850
• Artikelnr.: 48795957

Autorenporträt

Debbie Palmer is Associate Lecturer in Medical History at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'To help a million sick, you must kill a few nurses': the
impact of the campaign for professional status on nurses' health, 1890-1914
2. The First World War and nurses' choice of occupational representation 3.
Nurses' Registration Act, 1919 4. 'The disease which is most feared': the
problem of tuberculosis and its threat to nurses' health, 1880-1950 5.
Industrial psychology's influence on the recruitment and welfare of general
and mental nurses, 1930-48 Conclusion Index