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Place and Practice in Canadian Nursing History

21 Nov 2008

The close association between nurses and hospitals obscures the diversity and complexity of nursing work in other contexts. This collection looks at nurses and nursing in a wide range of settings from the mid-1800s to the 1970s, including indigenous women on the Canadian prairies; First World War nurses posted overseas; outpost nurses in rural and remote areas of Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec; public health nurses in Winnipeg; and religious congregations in nursing education in New Brunswick.?

The contributors use feminist and historical perspectives to illustrate how place, understood as both social context and geographic setting, shaped nursing identities and practices. Many nurses found place both liberating and constraining ? often simultaneously. Paying attention to place also situates these nurses and their work within larger historical themes of nation-building, war, and political change.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-209) and index
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
610.73/0971
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9780774815598 9780774815574
LCCN
RT6.A1
LCCN Item number
P59 2008eb
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CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (x, 221 p.)
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Canada
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00223507 (OCoLC)753345559 (CaOOCEL)425098
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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