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Author Rafferty, Anne Marie

Title The politics of nursing knowledge / Anne Marie Rafferty
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Contents Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Reformatory rhetoric -- chapter 2 The character of training and training of character -- chapter 3 Registration revisited -- chapter 4 The Nurses' Registration Act -- chapter 5 Crisis and conflict in the Caretaker Council (1919-23) -- chapter 6 The education policy of the General Nursing Council (1919-32) -- chapter 7 Commission and committee in nurse education policy (1930-9) -- chapter 8 Nationalising nursing education (1939-48)
Summary "Based on substantial new research and drawing on government and professional records, The Politics of Nursing Knowledge looks at how nurse education has been shaped by wider social attitudes towards gender and class. In a critical reappraisal of Florence Nightingale's vision of nursing, Anne Marie Rafferty explores the implications of Nightingale's belief that nursing training should be regarded as an education of character rather than an intellectual discipline. Analysing the relationship between nursing and associated professions, the author traces the evolution of training and policy-making from the origins of hospital reform in the 1860s to the start of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948." "Examining the contemporary issues affecting nursing, The Politics of Nursing Knowledge questions the extent to which the notion of a 'profession' is compatible with the career patterns and lifestyle opportunities of the majority of nurses, who are women. Looking to the future of nursing as an academic discipline, the final chapter asks whether an intellectually self-confident culture can emerge or whether the contradictions of professionalism and the health care system will prevent nursing from achieving its full potential."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-286) and index
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Subject Nursing -- Study and teaching -- Government policy -- Great Britain
Nurses -- Education -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
Professional socialization -- Great Britain
Occupational prestige -- Great Britain
Nurses -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
Social history.
Education, Nursing -- organization & administration
Education, Nursing -- history
Nursing -- trends
Social Conditions
social history.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Research & Theory.
Social history
Nurses -- Social conditions
Nursing -- Study and teaching -- Government policy
Occupational prestige
Professional socialization
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 020342896X
9780203428962
9780415114912
0415114918
9780415114929
0415114926