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- Author: Alannah Tomkins
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- ISBN-10: 1526178524
- ISBN-13: 9781526178527
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820 (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best of their ability, and often performed well, despite multiple threats to nurse reputations on the grounds of gender norms and social status. Chapters consider nursing in the home, in general hospitals, in specialist institutions like the Royal Chelsea Hospital and asylums, plus during wartime, illuminated by multiple accounts of individual nurses. In these settings, it employs the sociological concept of 'dirty work' to contextualise the challenges to nurses and nursing identities.
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- Author: Alannah Tomkins
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- ISBN-10: 1526178524
- ISBN-13: 9781526178527
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best of their ability, and often performed well, despite multiple threats to nurse reputations on the grounds of gender norms and social status. Chapters consider nursing in the home, in general hospitals, in specialist institutions like the Royal Chelsea Hospital and asylums, plus during wartime, illuminated by multiple accounts of individual nurses. In these settings, it employs the sociological concept of 'dirty work' to contextualise the challenges to nurses and nursing identities.
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