History of Nursing and Midwifery
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Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing
The Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing brings together leading scholars and scholarship to capture the state of the art and science of nursing history, as a generation of researchers turn to the history of nursing with new paradigms and methodological tools. Inviting readers to...
Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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First World War Nursing
New Perspectives
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that takes into account multiple facets...
Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Powerful Occupational Therapists
A Community of Professionals, 1950-1980
Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance. Participating in the 1950s rehabilitation, the 1960s equal rights, and the 1970s women’s...
Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
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A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth
Key Themes in Maternity Care
People are fascinated by stories of childbirth, and the sources to document maternity in Britain in the twentieth century are rich and varied. This book puts the history of maternity in England into its wider social context, highlighting areas of change and continuity, and charting the development...
Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Nursing and Women’s Labour in the Nineteenth Century
The Quest for Independence
This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation. Nineteenth century nursing history has, until now, concentrated almost exclusively on nurse leaders, on the development of nursing as a profession and the...
Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
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A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland
Based on new research using previously unpublished sources, this compelling text is an in-depth study of the history of nurse education in Ireland, presenting a new authoritative account of the history of the traditional system of training in Ireland. Introduced as part of the reforms of hospital...
Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses
A British Social History of Fever Nurses: A National Service
This well researched book provides an interesting study of the development of fever hospitals and fever nursing, mainly in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. It provides new insights into the development of nursing roles and nurse education and looks at the lives of key figures at that time....
Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge