Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990 - Couverture souple

Livre 5 sur 32: Canadian Social History

McPherson, Kathryn

 
9780802086792: Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990
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ISBN 10 : 0802086799 ISBN 13 : 9780802086792
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2003

Synopsis

Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they performed, and how they organized to defend their occupational interests. Whether in the apprenticeship method of the early twentieth century or in the present day restructuring of hospital work, the position of nurses within the health-care system has been structured by class, gender, and ethnic and racial relations. Located between the doctors and untrained or subsidiary patient-care attendants, nurses have struggled to define the boundaries of their occupation vis à vis other members of the health-care hierarchy, even as tensions between bedside and administrative nurses created divisions within nursing itself.

Focusing on the daily labours of 'ordinary nurses', McPherson argues that the persisting sex-typing of nursing as women's work has meant that gender consistently complicated nursing's easy categorization as either professional or proletariat. Combining archival records and oral histories, the author shows how nurses, in their work, activities, and social and sexual attitudes, sought recognition as skilled workers in the health-care system.

Previously published by Oxford University Press

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À propos de l'auteur

Kathryn McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of History and the School of Women's Studies at York University.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802086799
ISBN 13 
9780802086792
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
343
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195412192 ISBN 13 :  9780195412192
Editeur : Oxford University Press, Canada, 1996
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