The Nurse Apprentice, 1860–1977
The Nurse Apprentice, 1860–1977

Author: Ann Bradshaw

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1351884751

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Bradshaw (clinical practice, Oxford Brookes U.) describes the British apprenticeship model of nurse training, from its inception at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860 until its ending in 1977 with the publication of the last national syllabus from the General Nursing Council for England and Wales. A sampling of topics includes the principles of apprenticeship described in Florence Nightingale's writings, an analysis of nursing textbooks, Parliamentary debates about nursing, the American influence on the British nursing tradition, and the process which led to the professional consensus on apprenticeship breaking. c. Book News Inc.

Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

Author: Matthew Newsom Kerr

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 3319657682

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This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention—isolation. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways. Isolation on a mass scale transformed the meaning of urban epidemics and introduced contentious new relationships between health, citizenship, and the spaces of modern governance. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism.