Nursing and midwifery in Britain since 1700 / Nursing and midwifery in Britain since seventeen hundred edited by Anne Borsay and Billie Hunter. - xi, 244 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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.

0230247032 9780230247031

2012022934


Nursing--History--Great Britain
Midwifery--History--Great Britain
Midwives--History
Midwifery--History.
Professional Role--history
History of Nursing
History, Modern 1601-

RT11 / .N87 2012

618.200941