The Physician's Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing

by Barbara Melosh and Melosh

This book recasts nursing history and places it in the context of women's history, labor history, medical history, and sociology. Removed from the limited framework of professionalization, nursing history can provide a fresh perspective on broader issues in social history. First, it offers an illuminating example of the ways in which gender informs work and, conversely. How work reproduces and transforms relationships of power and inequality.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877222908
• ISBN13: 9780877222903
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"