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Devices & desires : gender, technology, and American nursing / Margarete Sandelowski.

Title: Devices & desires : gender, technology, and American nursing / Margarete Sandelowski.
Author: Sandelowski, Margarete.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xvii, 295 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"In this book, Margarete Sandelowski explores the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present. She argues that technology has been a crucial factor in shaping and intensifying persistent dilemmas in nursing and that it has both advanced and impeded the development of the profession.".
"Sandelowski examines key moments in the history of nursing that dramatize the ironies of the nursing-technology relationship and illuminate the contradictory possibilities of technological innovation in one of the domains of female work historically most subject to sex segregation. She argues that nurses have turned both toward and away from technology in their pursuit of cultural visibility and professional autonomy.
They have been viewed at times as masters of technology and at other times as mere extensions of it. And although technological progress has allowed nurses to enhance their skills in actual practice, it has also contributed to the rhetorical de-skilling of nursing."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies in social medicine

Uniform Title

Studies in social medicine.

Alternative Title

Devices and desires

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ISBN

LCCN

00032588

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries