Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain

Sweet, Helen M

Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain - New York; London : Routledge, 2008 - xvi, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (hbk) - Routledge studies in the social history of medicine .

Historical trajectories: background, c.1850-1919 -- What became of the lady? The interwar period, 1919-1939 -- War to welfare state, 1939-1948 -- Changing places, 1948-1979 -- Town nurse, country nurse: district nursing landscape -- Technology, treatment, and TLC -- Generalists and generals: district nursing professionalisation -- Language of caring: care and nurses' lives -- Portraits of a district nurse -- Discussion and conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

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