Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Nursing History and Humanities
ISBN-10
1526178524
ISBN-13
9781526178527
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 21st, 2025
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
560 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.80 x 2.70 cms
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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.
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