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[align=justify][box_out][box_in] According to Susan Reverby's Ordered toCare , the most salient fact about the occupation of nursing has been its traditional conceptualization by both the public and medical professionals as women's work, a judgment that has had a dramatic impact both on the nature of the tasks nurses perform and on the status of the profession. Reverby demonstrates how this ideology of nursing grew, not out of a belief in women's rights but from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century understandings of womanly character and duty.
Before 1870, nursing took place either in the home, where women nursed their loved ones as part of their familial obligations, or in hospitals, which were custodial institutions for the poor. Despite the differences in the settings, women in each of these roles were assumed to be"naturals" for the job, so hospital nurses were paid wages whose meagerness suggested money's irrelevance to the true character of nursing.
Even after 1870, when scientific and medical advances
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Before 1870, nursing took place either in the home, where women nursed their loved ones as part of their familial obligations, or in hospitals, which were custodial institutions for the poor. Despite the differences in the settings, women in each of these roles were assumed to be"naturals" for the job, so hospital nurses were paid wages whose meagerness suggested money's irrelevance to the true character of nursing.
Even after 1870, when scientific and medical advances
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Statistics : Posted by JoeAa • on 17 Sep 2023, 09:45 • Replies 5 • Views 1837
