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Nursing and midwifery in Britain since 1700 / edited by Anne Borsay and Billie Hunter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xi, 244 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230247032
  • 9780230247031
Other title:
  • Nursing and midwifery in Britain since seventeen hundred
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.200941 23
LOC classification:
  • RT11 .N87 2012
Contents:
1. Nursing and midwifery: historical approaches / Anne Borsay and Billie Hunter -- 2. Nursing, 1700-1830: families, communities, institutions / Anne Borsay -- 3. Nursing, 1830-1920 : forging a profession / Christine E. Hallett -- 4. Nursing, 1920-2000: the dilemmas of professionalization / Andrew Hull with Andrea Jones -- 5. Midwifery, 1700-1800: the man-midwife as competition / Helen King -- 6. Midwifery, 1800-1920: the journey to registration / Alison Nuttall -- 7. Midwifery, 1920-2000: the reshaping of a profession / Billie Hunter -- 8. International comparisons: the nursing-midwifery interface / Winifred Connerton and Patricia D'Antonio -- 9. Nursing and midwifery: an uneasy alliance or natural bedfellows? / Billie Hunter and Anne Borsay -- 10. Epilogue: contemporary challenges / Jane Sandall and Anne Marie Rafferty.
Summary: "Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the modern day"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Nursing and midwifery: historical approaches / Anne Borsay and Billie Hunter -- 2. Nursing, 1700-1830: families, communities, institutions / Anne Borsay -- 3. Nursing, 1830-1920 : forging a profession / Christine E. Hallett -- 4. Nursing, 1920-2000: the dilemmas of professionalization / Andrew Hull with Andrea Jones -- 5. Midwifery, 1700-1800: the man-midwife as competition / Helen King -- 6. Midwifery, 1800-1920: the journey to registration / Alison Nuttall -- 7. Midwifery, 1920-2000: the reshaping of a profession / Billie Hunter -- 8. International comparisons: the nursing-midwifery interface / Winifred Connerton and Patricia D'Antonio -- 9. Nursing and midwifery: an uneasy alliance or natural bedfellows? / Billie Hunter and Anne Borsay -- 10. Epilogue: contemporary challenges / Jane Sandall and Anne Marie Rafferty.

"Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the modern day"--Provided by publisher.

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