Description: Who Cared for the Carers?A History of the Occupational Health of Nurses, 1880-1948 Author(s): Deborah Palmer Format: Hardback Publisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 9780719090875, 978-0719090875 Synopsis This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process it reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the lives of ordinary nurses. It explains why the management of nurses' health changed over time and between places, and sets these changes within a wider context of social, political and economic history. Today, high rates of sickness absence in the nursing profession attract increasing criticism. Nurses took more days off sick in 2011 than private sector employees and most other groups of public sector workers. This book argues that the roots of today's problems are embedded in the ways nurses were managed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers insights not only into the history of women's work but also the history of disease and the ways changing scientific knowledge shaped the management of nurses' health. -- .
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Book Title: Who Cared for the Carers?
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: Who Cared for the Carers?: a History of the Occupational Health of Nurses, 1880-1948
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Item Height: 216 mm
Subject: Medicine
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Author: Deborah Palmer
Item Width: 138 mm
Series: Nursing History and Humanities
Format: Hardcover
