Edited by Barbara Mortimer and Susan McGann Mortimer, Barbara McGann, Susan text xxu London Routledge 2005 monographic eng

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xiv, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship, addressing professional, social and ethical issues through research from eleven countries. 1. Nursing History: International and Cultural Perspectives Susan McGann and Barbara Mortimer 2. Ethical Lives: Nursing (auto)Biographies and a History of Caring Julia Hallam 3. Bergljot Larsson, Founder and Leader of the Norwegian Nursing Association: A Case Study of the Influence of International Nursing Sigrun Hvalvik 4. Puerperal Fever as a Source of Conflict Between Midwives and Medical Men in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Britain Christine Hallett 5. Re-examining the History of Nursing in Brazil Maria Lucia Mott 6. Sanba and their Clients: midwives and the medicalization of childbirth in Japan Aya Homei US Organized Medicine's Perspective of Nursing: a Review of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 1883-1953 Brigid Lusk and Julie Robertson 7. Race, Identity and the Nursing Profession in South Africa Helen Sweet and Anne Digby 8. Health Care and Nursing Co-ordination during the Nazi era in the Region of Osnabruck Mathilde Hackman 9. 'In England We Did Nursing': the Immigrant Experiences of Caribbean and British Nurses in Great Britain and Canada Margaret Shkimba and Karen Flynn 10. 'Beware of Worthless Imitations': Advertising in Nursing Periodicals, c.1888-1945 Elaine Thomson 11. Exploring the Maternity Archive of the Wellington St Helen's Hospital, New Zealand, 1907-1980 Pamela Wood and Maralyn Foureur 12. Postscript: Common Working Ground Joan Lynaugh Nursing -- History Nursing -- History -- Cross-cultural studies RT31.N532 18 9784415511117 (pbk) 200324 20210427131316.0