Notes

Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland College Park, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-211) and index. Hospitals, hierarchies, and the duty to care -- Nursing education in the age of the apron -- Reforming and liberating nursing education -- Nursing education and the end of the apron -- Nursing work, culture, and identity -- Nursing and the feminist enlightenment -- New pathways for nurses.

Classification

• LCC: RT4
• Dewey Decimal: 610.73

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xiii, 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Edition Info: (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects

• Nursing -- United States -- History
• Feminism -- United States -- History
• Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions
• History of Nursing -- United States
• Education, Nursing -- history -- United States
• Feminism -- history -- United States
• History, 20th Century -- United States
• Women's Rights -- history -- United States

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