| Contents |
Ch. 1. From Hippocrates to Florence Nightingale: the birth of modern nursing -- Ch. 2. Untrained but undaunted: the women nurses of the Blue and the Gray -- Ch. 3. The founding of early schools of nursing in America -- Ch. 4. The rise of scientific medicine and its impact on nursing -- Ch. 5. The not-so-gay eighties and nineties in nurse training schools -- Ch. 6. Gaslight and shadow: the practice of nursing at the turn of the century -- Ch. 7. Nurses and the war with Spain -- Ch. 8. The rise of public health nursing -- Ch. 9. In quest of reform, 1909-1917 -- Ch. 10. Days of triumph: nursing in World War I -- Ch. 11. Boom and bust, 1920-1933 -- Ch. 12. Public health nursing, 1912-1930 -- Ch. 13. Depression doldrums, 1930-1939 -- Ch. 14. Nursing in the war for the world -- Ch. 15. Postwar reappraisal, 1945-1950 -- Ch. 16. Nursing at midcentury -- Ch. 17. Minorities in nursing strive for recognition -- Ch. 18. Toward professionalism -- Ch. 19. Politics, health, and nurses: the end of innocence -- Ch. 20. Nursing in transition: the growth of the health care industry -- Ch. 21. Danger and opportunity: health care reform and nursing -- Ch. 22. Nursing is health care: the dawn of the 21st Century. |
