Nursing and social change / Monica E. Baly.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xv,397p. : ill., facsims. ; 24cmISBN:- 9780415101974 (cased) :
- 9780415101981 (pbk) :
- 0415101980 (pbk.)
- 610.7309 BAL
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Previous ed.: London : Heinemann Medical, 1980.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Social change and attitude to care -- 2. Change and care before the reformation -- 3. The sixteenth-century transition -- 4. New approaches to care --5. The growth of hospitals in eighteenth-century England -- 6. The deserving and the undeserving poor --7. Those of unsound mind --8. Local government and sanitary reform --9. The influence of Florence Nightingale --10. Nursing reforms extended --11. Towards a health service --12. Registration and the growth of nursing organisations --13. Social change and nursing in the inter-war years --14. The legacy of the Second World War --15.The National Health service--16. Adapting nursing to new demands--17. New demands on nursing--18. Who will nurse the patients of tomorrow?--19. New problems for old in the community--20. Mental health nursing - origins and developments--21. Health at work--22. Nurses as managers--23. Nursing education - \'Reports are not self-executive\'--24. Nursing research--25. The road to reorganisation--26. Nursing, economic change and industrial relations--27. The health problems of the world--28. International and inter-regional organisations.
For nurses who wish to understand how their profession has developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day, this book examines the challenges facing nurses today. Ten new chapters include contributions from senior members of the nursing profession to bring the book right up to date.