Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain /
Helen M. Sweet ; with Rona Dougall.
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- xvi, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 30 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.
Historical trajectories: background, c.1850-1919 -- What became of the lady? The interwar period, 1919-1939 -- War to welfare state, 1939-1948 -- Changing places, 1948-1979 -- Town nurse, country nurse: district nursing landscape -- Technology, treatment, and TLC -- Generalists and generals: district nursing professionalisation -- Language of caring: care and nurses' lives -- Portraits of a district nurse -- Discussion and conclusion.
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Community health nursing--History--Great Britain--20th century. Primary health care--History--Great Britain--20th century. Community Health Nursing--history--Great Britain. History, 20th Century--Great Britain. Primary Health Care--history--Great Britain.