American nursing
Subtitle: a history
By: Philip A. Kalisch, Beatrice J. Kalisch
Contributors: Kalisch, Beatrice J., 1943-; Kalisch, Philip Arthur.
Edition: 4th ed
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780781739696
Subjects: Nursing -- United States -- History
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The advance of American nursing. 3rd ed. c1995

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. From Hippocrates to Florence Nightingale: the birth of modern nursing; title: Ch. 2. Untrained but undaunted: the women nurses of the Blue and the Gray; title: Ch. 3. The founding of early schools of nursing in America; title: Ch. 4. The rise of scientific medicine and its impact on nursing; title: Ch. 5. The not-so-gay eighties and nineties in nurse training schools; title: Ch. 6. Gaslight and shadow: the practice of nursing at the turn of the century; title: Ch. 7. Nurses and the war with Spain; title: Ch. 8. The rise of public health nursing; title: Ch. 9. In quest of reform, 1909-1917; title: Ch. 10. Days of triumph: nursing in World War I; title: Ch. 11. Boom and bust, 1920-1933; title: Ch. 12. Public health nursing, 1912-1930; title: Ch. 13. Depression doldrums, 1930-1939; title: Ch. 14. Nursing in the war for the world; title: Ch. 15. Postwar reappraisal, 1945-1950; title: Ch. 16. Nursing at midcentury; title: Ch. 17. Minorities in nursing strive for recognition; title: Ch. 18. Toward professionalism; title: Ch. 19. Politics, health, and nurses: the end of innocence; title: Ch. 20. Nursing in transition: the growth of the health care industry; title: Ch. 21. Danger and opportunity: health care reform and nursing; title: Ch. 22. Nursing is health care: the dawn  of the 21st Century