ABSTRACT

Nursing and Social Change is essential reading for nurses who wish to understand how their profession had developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Now in its third edition the book has been completely revised to take into account the challenges facing nurses. Ten new chapters include contributions from senior members of the nursing profession who have been closely involved in the most recent health service reorganisation and the radical changes to nurse education.

Students and practitioners will find Nursing and Social Change invaluable as a comprehensive source of reference which offers a unique combination of scholarship and readability.

chapter Chapter 1|12 pages

Social change and attitudes to care

chapter Chapter 2|14 pages

Change and care before the Reformation

chapter Chapter 3|11 pages

The sixteenth-century transition

chapter Chapter 4|12 pages

New approaches to care

chapter Chapter 6|20 pages

The deserving and the undeserving poor

chapter Chapter 7|11 pages

Those of unsound mind

chapter Chapter 8|17 pages

Local government and sanitary reform

chapter Chapter 9|13 pages

The influence of Florence Nightingale

chapter Chapter 10|8 pages

Nursing reforms extended

chapter Chapter 11|13 pages

Towards a health service

chapter Chapter 14|12 pages

The legacy of the Second World War

chapter Chapter 15|16 pages

The National Health Service

chapter Chapter 16|12 pages

Adapting nursing to new demands

chapter Chapter 17|10 pages

New demands on nursing

chapter Chapter 18|18 pages

Who will nurse the patients of tomorrow?

chapter Chapter 19|14 pages

New problems for old in the community

chapter Chapter 20|14 pages

Mental health nursing—origins and developments

chapter Chapter 21|13 pages

Health at work

chapter Chapter 22|18 pages

Nurses as managers

chapter Chapter 24|10 pages

Nursing research

chapter Chapter 25|16 pages

The road to reorganisation

chapter Chapter 26|15 pages

Nursing, economic change and industrial relations

chapter Chapter 27|15 pages

The health problems of the world

chapter Chapter 28|17 pages

International and inter-regional organisations