Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Hallam, Julia, 1952-

Title Nursing the image : media, culture and professional identity / Julia Hallam
Published London : Routledge, 2000

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  610.730941 Hal/Nti  AVAILABLE
Description 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Illustration acknowledgements -- -- -- Introduction: (Auto)biography, research and -- feminist cultural studies -- -- 1 Images, identities and selves -- Images: nursing and femininity -- Identities: nurses and their professional image -- Selves: personal conceptions of professional identity -- -- 2 The popular imagination -- Reification and recruitment: images in post-war -- Britain -- Irreverence and romance: the 1950s and 1960s -- Fascination and aspiration: the romantic ideal -- Soap, sex and satire: the late 1960s and early 1970s -- -- 3 The professional imagination -- -- A divided identity -- Class divisions: job or profession? -- Gender divisions: men enter the picture -- Racial divisions: visible differences -- Image and identity: Briggs and the image of nursing -- -- -- -- 4 The personal imagination -- -- Self-image and uniform identities -- Knowing your place: hierarchy, status and the self -- Out of place: re-location, racism and the 'other' -- The 'proper nurse': self as image, image as self -- -- 5 The contemporary imagination -- Recruitment in crisis -- Romance in crisis -- Equal opportunities in crisis: medical drama -- Carry on caring -- -- -- Notes -- References and bibliography -- Index
Summary "This book argues that nursing's professional identity in post-war Britain is a discourse of white femininity that women actively construct and practise in conditions and circumstances not of their choosing. Images of nursing in the media and promotional recruitment literature are juxtaposed with written and oral accounts of becoming a nurse gathered from a diverse group of women. These auto/biographies reveal how a Victorian legacy of white middle-class values, inherited from Florence Nightingale's pioneering efforts to make nursing a respectable profession for women, permeated nursing's professional identity and shaped nurses' attitudes to their working lives. For those deemed 'unsuitable' for training because of their gender, class or skin colour, many of whom arrived in England from Britain's former colonies to staff the newly created National Health Service, the 'angel' embodied an outdated system of values and practices that had to be challenged." "Nursing the Image will be a valuable source for any courses dealing with the social history of nursing, the understanding of health, and women and gender studies, and for sociology courses focusing on the cultural or gendered study of health."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Feminism -- Great Britain.
Feminist theory.
Nurses -- Great Britain -- Psychology.
Nurses -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.
Nurses -- Great Britain.
Nursing -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Prejudices -- Great Britain.
Professional socialization -- Great Britain.
Public opinion -- Great Britain.
Sex role -- Great Britain.
Social perception -- Great Britain.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Great Britain.
Stereotyping (Printing) -- Great Britain.
Nurses.
Feminism.
Prejudice.
Social Perception.
Stereotyping.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
LC no. 00036622
ISBN 0415184541
041518455X (paperback)
Other Titles Nursing the image : media, culture and professional identity