A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing historyover the last decade. Nursing history has been transformed from an internalistand tri... » 

A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing historyover the last decade. Nursing history has been transformed from an internalistand triumphalist form of professional apologetics to a robust and reflectivearea of scholarship. The seventeen international contributors to this book lookat nursing from different perspectives as it has developed under differentregimes and ideologies and at different times in America Australia BritainGermany India the Philippines and South Africa. They highlight the role ofpolitics and gender in understanding nursing history and the part that historyhas to play in the education of nurses today. «