Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

Helen M. Sweet, with Rona Dougall (University of Glasgow, Scotland)

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Routledge
31 October 2007

Health systems & services; Community nursing

Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse's work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, training, conditions of service, and workload.

A strong oral history component provides a unique insight into the professional images of district nursing and the complexities of inter- and intra-professional relationships as well as into the changing day-to-day working experiences of the district nurse at 'grass-roots' level. Use of oral history and records of individual nurses attempts to rectify the tendency of nursing history to view nurses as if they were a homogenous group of professionals, thereby recognizing the different experiences of nurses in different regions and environments.

The book also considers the degree of influence of medically related technologies and of developments in drugs, materials, communications, and transport on the professional development of district nursing. The work addresses issues of gender relationships central to a nursing profession largely composed of women (throughout much of the period) working alongside a largely male-dominated medical profession.

By: Helen M. Sweet, with Rona Dougall (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 30
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9780415956345
ISBN 10: 041595634X
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 31 October 2007
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Helen Sweet is currently working at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, as a Research Associate. Dr Rona Dougall is research Assistant at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews for Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

'This book makes a significant contribution to the history of caring so needed anlongside the predominance of histories of management and professional formation in the canon of nursing publications.' -- Medical History