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OverviewThis 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. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah Palmer , Debbie Palmer , Christine Hallett , Jane E. SchultzPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780719090875ISBN 10: 0719090873 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 28 February 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDebbie Palmer is Associate Lecturer in Medical History at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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