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« To help a million sick, you must kill a few nurses »: nurses’ occupational health, 1890-1914

Auteur     Deborah Palmer
Résumé     Although nursing is recognized today as a serious occupational health risk, nursing historians have neglected the theme of occupational health and individual nurses’ experience of illness. This article uses the local history of three case study institutions to set nurses’ health in a national context of political, social, and cultural issues, and suggests a relationship between nurses’ health and the professionalization of nursing. The institutions approached the problem differently for good reasons, but the failure to adopt a coherent and consistent policy worked to the detriment of nurses’ health. However, the conclusion that occupational health was somehow neglected by contemporary actors was, nevertheless, erroneous and facilitated omission of the subject from historical studies concentrating on professional projects and the wider politics of nursing. This article shows that occupational health issues were inexorably connected to these nursing debates and cannot be understood without reference to professional projects.
Publication     Nursing History Review: Official Journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing
Volume     20
Pages     14-45
Date     2012

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doi:10.1891/1062-8061.20.14

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