First Aid to the Injured and Management of the Sick
First Aid to the Injured and Management of the Sick

Author: Edmond James Lawless

Publisher:

Published: 1894

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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First Edinburgh edition (published in Philadelphia in the same year) of an illustrated guide to first aid, written by Surgeon-Captain E.J. Lawless M.D., of the East Surrey Regiment, and designed to 'suit the requirements of those attending regimental classes', as well as to members of volunteer and civil ambulance classes. 'Recent circular orders upon the formation of Brigade Bearer Companies in the Volunteer Service, render it advisable that the course for the ambulance proficiency certificate should be supplemented by a second and more extended instruction in subjects such as Sick Nursing - Field Hospital Organization - the elementary principles of Health and of Sick Diet, &c. Part II has been written with this end in view' (preface). The Volunteer Infantry Brigade Bearer plan to create dedicated companies appears to have been begun not long after the formation in 1877 of the Ambulance Association of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. As Lawless makes clear in his preface, the scheme seems never to have really taken off nation-wide, and he appeals to the executive Committee of the St. John Ambulance Association, that some of their newly certified and qualified able-bodied young men could be encouraged to swell the ranks of the County Bearer and Regimental Companies.

American Nursing
American Nursing

Author: Patricia D'Antonio

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2010-07-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0801895642

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First Place, History and Public Policy, 2010 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards 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.