Behind Closed Doors: The Public and Private Nexus of District Nursing, 1885–1956
For most of the twentieth century, district nursing services struggled to make public the private work of district nursing, undertaken as it was behind the closed doors of homes and residences of people who were poor, chronically ill, or disab...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Health and History. - Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 1998. - 14(2012), 2, Seite 74-90 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2012
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Health and History |
| Schlagworte: | History district-nursing gender charity Economics Philosophy Health sciences Education Arts Behavioral sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | For most of the twentieth century, district nursing services struggled to make public the private work of district nursing, undertaken as it was behind the closed doors of homes and residences of people who were poor, chronically ill, or disabled. Two factors that influenced this difficulty included making this work visible to the general public as well as the gendered nature of the work itself. This paper explores these factors by considering district nursing within the context of charity work and argues that the nature of nursing work and who the nurses were themselves, played key roles in the success or otherwise of districting nursing services negotiating this public-private nexus. |
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| ISSN: | 14421771 |
| DOI: | 10.5401/healthhist.14.2.0074 |