A01=Deborah Palmer
Author_Deborah Palmer
Category=MBX
Category=MQC
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
History of nursing
Occupational health
Professionalisation of nursing
The Cornwall Lunatic Asylum
The London Hospital
The South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital
Product details
- ISBN 9780719090875
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2014
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process it reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the lives of ordinary nurses. It explains why the management of nurses’ health changed over time and between places, and sets these changes within a wider context of social, political and economic history. Today, high rates of sickness absence in the nursing profession attract increasing criticism. Nurses took more days off sick in 2011 than private sector employees and most other groups of public sector workers. This book argues that the roots of today’s problems are embedded in the ways nurses were managed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers insights not only into the history of women’s work but also the history of disease and the ways changing scientific knowledge shaped the management of nurses’ health.
Debbie Palmer is Associate Lecturer in Medical History at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
