The advance of American nursing /

Kalisch, Philip Arthur.

The advance of American nursing / Philip A. Kalisch, Beatrice J. Kalisch. - 2nd edition. - Boston : Little, Brown, c1986. - x, 851 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents;

1. From Hippocrates to Florence nightingale: The birth of modern nursing
2. Untrained but undaunted: The women nurses of the blue and gray
3. The founding of early schools of nursing in America
4. The rise of scientific medicine and its impact on nursing
5. The not-so-gay eighties and nineties in nurse training schools
6. Gaslight and shadow: The practice of nursing at the turn of the century
7. Nurses and the war with Spain
8. The rise of public health nursing
9. In quest of reform, 1909-1917
10. Days of triumph: Nursing in world war I
11. Boom and bust, 1920-1933
12. Public-health nursing, 1912-1930
13. Depression doldrums, 1930-1939
14. Nursing in the war for the world
15. Postwar reappraisal, 1945-1950.
etc.





Bibliography : p. 771-824 . _ Index : p. 827-851.

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