The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession

Adopting and Adapting Western Influences

Aya Takahashi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-67496-6 (ISBN)

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In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It discusses how Japanese nursing adopted western models, implementing 'Nightingale-ism' in a conscious, caricature way, and implemented it more fully, at least on the surface, than in Britain. At the same time Japanese nurses had to cope, with great difficulty, with traditional Japanese attitudes, which were strongly opposed to women being involved in professions of any kind, and, as the book shows, western models did not in fact penetrate very deeply.

Aya Takahashi is Associate Professor at the International Student Center, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Section One: An Imported Profession
Section Two: The Development of a Japanese Model
Section Three: 'Re-encounter' with Western Nursing Professionalism

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.12.2011
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-415-67496-4 / 0415674964
ISBN-13	978-0-415-67496-6 / 9780415674966
Zustand	Neuware