Nursing History in Illinois

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Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurses have necessarily used a variety of tools, instruments, and machines--from thermometers to cardiac monitors--to appraise, treat, and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present, Margarete Sandelowski argues that technology has helped shape and intensify 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. She demonstrates that nurses both embraced and rejected technology in their pursuit of cultural visibility and professional autonomy--with varying amounts of success. As one of the domains of female work historically most subject to sex segregation, Sandelowski notes, nursing provides an ideal site in which to examine the interplay of technology and gender.

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Letters trace Florence Nightingale's work on behalf of British soldiers, hospital reform, and professional nursing, and shares her views on the role of women.

Featuring some of the most important works in the history of US nursing from the 19th and 20th centuries, this title is part of a collection that covers issues such as public health, the education and training of nurses, hospital management, and ethical and racial issues of nursing.

Excerpt from Foods and Dietaries: A Manual of Clinical Dietetics A knowledge of the physiology of digestion lies at the root of sound practical dietetics, and although it does not come within the scope of the present work to enter into a lengthy examination of different foods and their properties, or into a detailed account of the mechanism of digestion, it may be well to advert very briefly to a few points regarding foods and normal digestion. For the present purpose foods may be grouped as (1) nitrogenous elements (albuminoids, proteids); (2) carbo hydrates (starches, sugars, (3) hydro-carbons (fats); (4) salts and water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.

Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.

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A sumptuously illustrated commemorative volume marks a key turning point in American art.

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also known as Student Nurse: A Picture Story

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Volume 1: A History of the Alexian Brothers from 1300 to 1789. Volume 2: The Ministry of Healing: A history of the Alexian Brothers from 1789 to the Present

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Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions--medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they depended on the subordination of one term to another, were always unstable. Poovey contends that this instability helps explain why various institutional versions of binary logic developed unevenly. This unevenness, in turn, helped to account for the emergence in the 1850s of a genuine oppositional voice: the voice of an organized, politicized feminist movement. Drawing on a wide range of sources--parliamentary debates, novels, medical lectures, feminist analyses of work, middle-class periodicals on demesticity--Poovey examines various controversies that provide glimpses of the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously constructed, deployed, and contested. These include debates about the use of chloroform in childbirth, the first divorce law, the professional status of writers, the plight of governesses, and the nature of the nursing corps. Uneven Developments is a contribution to the feminist analysis of culture and ideology that challenges the isolation of literary texts from other kinds of writing and the isolation of women's issues from economic and political histories.

In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in Luzon, and this paradise became a fiery hell. Caught in the raging battle, the nurses set up field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor, where they tended to the most devastating injuries of war, and suffered the terrors of shells and shrapnel.   But the worst was yet to come. After Bataan and Corregidor fell, the nurses were herded into internment camps where they would endure three years of fear, brutality, and starvation. Once liberated, they returned to an America that at first celebrated them, but later refused to honor their leaders with the medals they clearly deserved. Here, in letters, diaries, and riveting firsthand accounts, is the story of what really happened during those dark days, woven together in a deeply affecting saga of women in war.

"As the 400th anniversary of Columbus' great voyage to America grew near, enterprising minds in the United States formulated plans to stage a gala celebration to commemorate the historic event and showcase the astounding progress of mankind - particularly the accomplishments of the New World. As enthusiasm mounted, planners envisioned a celebration unparalleled in size, scope and grandeur; they would create a "fair to end all fairs."" "After a heated competition among cities vying to host the event, Chicago, with its thriving business community, expansive parkland and efficient railroad system, was selected as the site. With Congress' blessing, organizers began the mammoth tasks of financing, planning and building the World's Columbian Exposition in the spring of 1890." "The World's Columbian Exposition takes readers on a fascinating journey back to the fair. It tells how noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted masterfully transformed more than 600 acres of swamp and bog along Lake Michigan into a grand and graceful fairgrounds; how Chief of Construction Daniel Burnham assembled an elite cadre of the country's most talented architects and artisans to design and build the provocatively utopian "White City"; and how countries from every corner of the globe amassed their latest products and most treasured antiquities to display at the fair." "Vicariously stepping into the shoes of their great-grandparents, readers visit the glorious fairgrounds, seduced by the awe-inspiring architecture, astonished by the seemingly endless displays of everything from the Liberty Bell and Columbus' journal to a thirty-five-foot-high tower of oranges and 16,000 varieties of orchids. Readers share their ancestors' thrill at viewing Thomas Edison's brilliant illumination of the grounds, encountering foreign peoples and cultures for the first time ever, and boarding the world's first Ferris Wheel for an exhilarating ride 264 feet skyward in a cabin the size of a railcar." "The fair was a huge success by any measure, and it presented America with far more than pure entertainment and enlightenment. Although it was intended to recall the glory and grandeur of the past, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 infused America with new hope and spirit as it sped toward the twentieth century - and a new age of discovery."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved