American nursing : a history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work
Title:
American nursing : a history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work
Author:
D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-
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Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
xviii, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Nursing and physicians in nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Competence, coolness, courage, and control -- They went nursing, in early twentieth-century America -- Wives, mothers, and nurses -- Race, place, and professional identity -- A tale of two associations : White and African American nurses in North Carolina -- Who is a nurse?
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ISBN:
9780801895647
9780801895654
Format :
Book
