| Description |
xlv, 514 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Medical Humanities collection PAH
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| Contents |
Pt .1 "Exposing the meretricious lies": early women healers and nurses and the mythology of medicine's "natural" supremacy over healing -- 1. "The mere trivia of history"? the legacy of early women healers and physicians' efforts to exclude or control them -- 2. "She hath done what she could": reforming nursing as physicians tighten the medical monopoly in Great Britain, 1800s to early 1900s - 3. The search for American nursing origins: differing approaches to the history of nursing and the medical monopoly in the United States, 1800s to the early 1900s - pt. 2. The purposeful move toward dominance: subordinating nurses and achieving a medical monopoly - 4. "For their own good": Physicians manipulating, trivializing, and coercing nurses, later 1800s to the 1920s - 5. "The exclusive guardians of all matters of health": the consolidation of medical monopoly in the 1920s and 1930s - 6. A growing unease: nurse-physician interprofessional relations from the 1940s to the 1960s -- 7. Reconciling practice with protest and confrontation with cooperation: nurse-physician relations in the 1970s - pt. 3. An outdated, burdensome model of monopolistic control: entering the twenty-first century with a fractured health-care system and continuing medical opposition to nurses' autonomy - 8. Who needs the autonomous professional nurse? gender stereotypes remain central to nurse-physician relations - 9. Challenges to the medical monopoly: nurses' gains in direct payment, hospital privileges, prescriptive authority, and expanded practice laws - 10. The results of the medical monopoly: "A regulatory and policy-making quagmire." |
| Notes |
Part of Medical Humanities collection in PAH |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-506) and index |
| Subject |
Prejudices.
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Sex discrimination against women -- History.
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Nurse and physician -- History.
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Sexism in medicine -- History.
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Feminism -- History.
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Nursing -- History.
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Nursing -- Social aspects -- History.
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Nursing -- trends.
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Physician-Nurse Relations.
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Prejudice.
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Women's Rights.
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| Author |
Roberts, Joan I., author
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| LC no. |
00069714 |
| ISBN |
025333926X (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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