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Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899
About this book
Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century on historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860, the founder of modern nursing. This book investigates two major earlier reforms in nursing: a doctor-driven reform which came to be called the 'ward system,' and the reforms of the Anglican Sisters, known as the 'central system' of nursing. Rather than being the beginning of nursing reform, Nightingale nursing was the culmination of these two earlier reforms.
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Yes, you can access Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899 by Carol Helmstadter,Judith Godden in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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World HistoryTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Note on Authors and Contributor
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary
- 1 The New Medicine and its Dependence on Good Nursing
- 2 Hospital Nursing in the First Part of the Century
- 3 The Ward System: A Doctor-driven Reform
- 4 Early Efforts at Training
- 5 Nursing at the Crossroads, Part 1: Ladies and Religious Sisters in the Crimean War
- 6 Nursing at the Crossroads, Part 2: Working-class Nurses in the Crimean War
- 7 St John’s House and its Mission
- 8 The St John’s House Central Nursing System
- 9 The Demise of Sisterhood Nursing and the Central System
- 10 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index