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Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing (Studies in Social Medicine)
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Paperback. Nurses have used a variety of tools, instruments and machines to appraise, treat and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from 1870 to the present, this text shows that technology has helped shape dilemmas in nursing and advance the profession's development. Series: Studies in Social Medicine. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 illustrations, notes, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ; MBX; MQC; TBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurses have necessarily used a variety of tools, instruments, and machines--from thermometers to cardiac monitors--to appraise, treat, and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present, Margarete Sandelowski argues that technology has helped shape and intensify persistent dilemmas in nursing and that it has both advanced and impeded the development of the profession. Sandelowski examines key moments in the ... Read more
Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurses have necessarily used a variety of tools, instruments, and machines--from thermometers to cardiac monitors--to appraise, treat, and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present, Margarete Sandelowski argues that technology has helped shape and intensify persistent dilemmas in nursing and that it has both advanced and impeded the development of the profession. Sandelowski examines key moments in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Social Medicine
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807848937
SKU
V9780807848937
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99-15
About Unknown
Margarete Sandelowski is Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Her books include Pain, Pleasure, and American Childbirth: From the Twilight Sleep to the Read Method, 1914-1960 and With Child in Mind: Studies of the Personal Encounter with Infertility.
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