Kathryn McPherson 
Bedside Matters [EPUB ebook] 
The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990

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Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they performed, and how they organized to defend their occupational interests. Whether in the apprenticeship method of the early twentieth century or in the present day restructuring of hospital work, the position of nurses within the health-care system has been structured by class, gender, and ethnic and racial relations. Located between the doctors and untrained or subsidiary patient-care attendants, nurses have struggled to define the boundaries of their occupation vis a vis other members of the health-care hierarchy, even as tensions between bedside and administrative nurses created divisions within nursing itself.Focusing on the daily labours of ‘ordinary nurses’, Mc Pherson argues that the persisting sex-typing of nursing as women’s work has meant that gender consistently complicated nursing’s easy categorization as either professional or proletariat. Combining archival records and oral histories, the author shows how nurses, in their work, activities, and social and sexual attitudes, sought recognition as skilled workers in the health-care system.Previously published by Oxford University Press
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 343 ● ISBN 9781442658905 ● Casa editrice University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Pubblicato 2003 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 6568900 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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