Taking care : the story of nursing and its power to change our world /
Offers a sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, paying homage to the profession and making an urgent call for change. DiGregorio chronicles the lives of nurses past and tells the stories of those today, caregivers at the vital intersection of health care and communit...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Origins: to nurse is to be human: reclaiming a history
- Hierarchy: the making of a big lie: essentially female, always subordinate
- Identity: who is a nurse? the wartime struggle for the right to care
- Community: libraries, church basements, and tenement houses: nursing at work in everyday lives
- Endings: nursing beyond cures: the radical promise of hospice
- Autonomy: the fight for choices: a complicated story of nurses, birth control, and abortion
- Environment: seeing the future: nursing in a swiftly changing climate
- Addiction: staying alive: how radical acceptance can transform substance use care
- Collective: no angels: nursing as labor
- Power: taking charge: what we all gain when good nurses govern.