Anne Marie Rafferty

The Politics of Nursing Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on substantial new research and drawing on government and professional records, The Politics of Nursing Knowledge looks at how nurse education has been shaped by wider social attitudes towards gender and class. In a critical reappraisal of Florence Nightingale's vision of nursing, Anne Marie Rafferty explores the implications of Nightingale's belief that nursing training should be regarded as an education of character rather than an intellectual discipline. Analysing the relationship between nursing and associated professions, the author traces the evolution of training and policy-making from the origins of hospital reform in the 1860s to the start of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. Examining the contemporary issues affecting nursing, The Politics of Nursing Knowledge questions the extent to which the notion of a 'profession' is compatible with the career patterns and lifestyle opportunities of the majority of nurses, who are women. Looking to the future of nursing as an academic discipline, the final chapter asks whether an intellectually self-confident culture can emerge or whether the contradictions of professionalism and the health care system will prevent nursing from achieving its full potential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415114912
• ISBN-10: 0415114918
• Artikelnr.: 21949357

Autorenporträt

Anne Marie Rafferty is Director of the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Reformatory rhetoric 2 The character of training and
training of character 3 Registration revisited 4 The Nurses' Registration
Act 5 Crisis and conflict in the Caretaker Council (1919-23) 6 The
education policy of the General Nursing Council (1919-32) 7 Commission and
committee in nurse education policy (1930-9) 8 Nationalising nursing
education (1939-48), Conclusion