Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sweet Helen M
Group Author: Dougall Rona
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 30
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xvi, 266 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780415956345 (hardback : alk. paper)
041595634X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203933725 (ebk)
0203933729 (ebk)
Index Number: R473
CLC: R473.2
R199.561
Call Number: R473.2/S974
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.
Historical trajectories: background, c.1850-1919 -- What became of the lady? The interwar period, 1919-1939 -- War to welfare state, 1939-1948 -- Changing places, 1948-1979 -- Town nurse, country nurse: district nursing landscape -- Technology, treatment, and TLC -- Generalists and generals: district nursing professionalisation -- Language of caring: care and nurses' lives -- Portraits of a district nurse -- Discussion and conclusion.