American nursing
Subtitle: a history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work
By: Patricia D'Antonio.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780801895647; 9780801895654
Subjects: Nursing -- United States -- History; History of Nursing -- United States; History, 19th Century -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Nurse's Role -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nursing and physicians in nineteenth-century Philadelphia; title: Competence, coolness, courage, and control; title: They went nursing, in early twentieth-century America; title: Wives, mothers, and nurses; title: Race, place, and professional identity; title: A tale of two associations : White and African American nurses in North Carolina; title: Who is a nurse?.