Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain
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Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 30 |
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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. |