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This new interpretation of the history of nursing in the United States captures the many ways women reframed the most traditional of all gender expectations--that of caring for the sick--to create new possibilities for themselves, to renegotiate the terms of some of their life experiences, and to reshape their own sense of worth and power.

For much of modern U.S. history, nursing was informal, often uncompensated, and almost wholly the province of female family and community members. This began to change at the end of the nineteenth century when the prospect of formal training opened for women doors that had been previously closed. Nurses became respected professionals, and becoming a formally trained nurse granted women a range of new social choices and opportunities that eventually translated into economic mobility and stability.

Patricia D'Antonio looks closely at this history--using a new analytic framework and a rich trove of archival sources--and finds complex, multiple meanings in the individual choices of women who elected a nursing career. New relationships and social and professional options empowered nurses in constructing consequential lives, supporting their families, and participating both in their communities and in the health care system.

Narrating the experiences of nurses, D'Antonio captures the possibilities, power, and problems inherent in the different ways women defined their work and lived their lives. Scholars in the history of medicine, nursing, and public policy, those interested in the intersections of identity, work, gender, education, and race, and nurses will find this a provocative book.

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  • Title American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work
  • Author Patricia D'Antonio
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2010-06-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801895654 / 0801895650
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.06 x 0.62 in (23.01 x 15.39 x 1.57 cm)
  • Age range 18 to 22 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 17
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Nursing
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Medical / Nursing
  • Library of Congress subjects History, 20th Century - United States, History, 19th Century - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009037380
  • Dewey Decimal Code 610.730

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  • Choice, 01/01/2011, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/15/2010, Page 92

About the author

Patricia D'Antonio is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the associate director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Senior Fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute. She is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester's School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work; a coeditor of Nurses' Work: Issues across Time and Place and Enduring Issues in American Nursing, and the author of Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.

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