Research Catalog

Title

A zeal for responsibility : the struggle for professional nursing in Victorian England, 1868-1883 / Judith Moore.

Author

Moore, Judith, 1939-

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1988.

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Details

Description

xvii, 214 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Nursing > England > London > History > 19th century
• Teaching hospitals > England > London > Sociological aspects > History > 19th century
• Nurse and physician > England > London > History > 19th century
• History of Nursing
• History, 19th Century
• Hospitals, Teaching > history
• Nurse and physician
• Nursing
• Krankenpflege
• Verpleegkundigen
• Professionalisering
• Victoriaanse tijd
• Krankenpflege
• England
• England > London
• Großbritannien
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic notes and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. St John's House and King's College Hospital -- 1. The form and functions of a nursing sisterhood -- 2. Origins of the Crisis of 1874 -- 3. Resolutions of the Crisis of 1874 -- 5. Doctors and nurses in the 1870s and the sexual division of labor -- pt. 2. The Crisis at Guy's Hospital -- 5. The issue of authority -- 6. Public debate -- 7. The Governors' investigation and the Ingle Case -- 8. Collapse and reconciliation -- pt. 3. St John's House and Its Council -- 9. Sister Aimee, Joseph Lister, and Dr. Hayes -- 10. The Council -- 11. Secession -- 12. The nursing sisters of St. John the Divine -- pt. 4. Conclusions -- 13. Status and sex in late Victorian medicine -- 14. Prestige, professionalism and the care of the sick.

ISBN

• 0820309559
• 9780820309552

LCCN

87005949

OCLC

• ocm15421756
• 15421756
• SCSB-1722198

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library