Nursing and midwifery in Britain since 1700 / edited by Anne Borsay and Billie Hunter.
"Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteent...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Nursing and midwifery: historical approaches / Anne Borsay and Billie Hunter
- 2. Nursing, 1700-1830: families, communities, institutions / Anne Borsay
- 3. Nursing, 1830-1920 : forging a profession / Christine E. Hallett
- 4. Nursing, 1920-2000: the dilemmas of professionalization / Andrew Hull with Andrea Jones
- 5. Midwifery, 1700-1800: the man-midwife as competition / Helen King
- 6. Midwifery, 1800-1920: the journey to registration / Alison Nuttall
- 7. Midwifery, 1920-2000: the reshaping of a profession / Billie Hunter
- 8. International comparisons: the nursing-midwifery interface / Winifred Connerton and Patricia D'Antonio
- 9. Nursing and midwifery: an uneasy alliance or natural bedfellows? / Billie Hunter and Anne Borsay
- 10. Epilogue: contemporary challenges / Jane Sandall and Anne Marie Rafferty.