Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820
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2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7852-7 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7852-7 (ISBN)
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This book analyses the reputations and experiences of women and men who nursed the sick before any calls for nursing reform. -- .
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. -- .
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. -- .
Alannah Tomkins is a Professor of Social History at Keele University. -- .
Introduction
1 Domestic nursing by women: ideals and experiences
2 Nursing the Metropolis: the ancient London hospitals of St Thomas’s and St Bartholomew’s
3 Nursing provincial infirmaries 1735-1820
4 Nursing in Royal Chelsea Hospital
5 Nursing by men: an issue of identity
6 Nursing in wartime 1793-1815
Conclusion -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Nursing History and Humanities |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 figures, 9 tables |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7852-4 / 1526178524 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7852-7 / 9781526178527 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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