Title: The advance of American nursing /
Authors: Kalisch, Philip Arthur.; Kalisch, Beatrice J., 1943-
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Year: 1986
Subjects: History of Nursing; Nursing United States History; United States; United States
Contents: From Hippocrates to Florence Nightingale: the birth of modern nursing -- Untrained but undaunted: he woment nurses of the Blue and Grey -- Founding of early schools of nursing in America -- Rise of scientific medicine and its impact on nursing -- Not-so-gay eighties and nineties in nurse training schools -- Gaslight and shadow: the practice of nursing at the turn of the century -- Nurses and the war with Spain -- Rise of public-health nursing -- In quest of reform 1909-1917 -- Days of triumph: nursing in World War I -- Boom or bust 1920-1933 -- Public-health nursing 1912-1930 -- Depression doldrums 1930-1939 -- Nursing in the War for the World -- Postwar reappraisal 1945-1950 -- Nursing at Midcentury -- Minorities in nursing strive for recognition -- Toward professionalism -- Politics, Health, and Nurses: the end of innocence -- Toward a new era in nursing