Description |
xxv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Women, gender, and health |
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Women, gender, and health.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index. |
Contents |
Midway between the pharmacist and the physician: the work of the Henry Street settlement visiting nurses, 1893-1944 -- Practicing medicine without a license? Nurse anesthetists, 1900-1938 -- Providing care in the "hoot owl hollers": nursing, medicine, and the law in the frontier nursing service, 1925-1950 -- My treatment was castor oil and aspirin: field nursing among the Navajo in the four corners region, 1925-1955 -- Verbal orders and hospital nursing: expanding nurses' scope of practice in the mid-twentieth century -- Nurse practitioners and the prescription pad, 1965-1980 -- Prescriptive authority for advanced practice nurses, 1980-2000. |
Subject |
Nursing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Drugs -- Prescribing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nursing Services -- history -- United States. |
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History, 19th Century -- United States. |
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History, 20th Century -- United States. |
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Nurse's Role -- history -- United States. |
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Prescriptions, Drug -- history -- United States. |
ISBN |
0814210503 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780814210505 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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