Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly
Subtitle: Historical
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: September 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780253339263
Subjects: Health systems & services; History of medicine; Nursing & Ancillary Services; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Nursing (Specific Aspects); Sociology Of Medicine; Medical; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Gender Studies; Women's Studies - General; General; Labor & Employment; Nursing - General; Feminism; History; Nurse and physician; Nursing; Sexism in medicine
First sentence: Over the past three decades, significant changes have occurred in the nursing profession and in the conventional societal definitions of women and their roles.