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Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation

Wall, Rosemary; Hallett, Christine E.

Authors

Rosemary Wall

Christine E. Hallett



Contributors

Thomas Schlich
Editor

Abstract

Nurses played an essential role in the major developments in surgery between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. This chapter focuses on the Anglo-American world, weaving in original research with a historiographical review. Three strands run through the chapter—professionalisation, education, and innovation. Professionalisation includes the changing role and perception of nurses within both hospital and military arenas. Textbooks reveal the changing surgical knowledge required for nursing, but also illustrate continuity in education and in practices, such as preparing a domestic home for surgery, which nurses did well into the twentieth century.

Citation

Wall, R., & Hallett, C. E. (2017). Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation. In T. Schlich (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery (153-174). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8

Online Publication Date Dec 14, 2017
Publication Date 2017
Deposit Date Jun 11, 2019
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 153-174
Book Title The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery
ISBN 978-1-349-95259-5
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1970883
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8