Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life.
On All Frontiers is a comprehensive history of Canadian nursing. Editors Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau have brought together a vast body of research into one volume. Authored by leading experts, the chapters and vignettes form an overview of the history of Canadian nursing to date.
From the midwives of early Canada to urban public health nurses, from remote outposts to the battlefields of Europe, On All Frontiers documents the hardships, challenges, and achievements of Canadian nurses. Richly illustrated with archival photographs, it will prove essential to scholars of Canadian health care history.
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- Includes bibliographical references: p. 243-246
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- 610.73/0971
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- 22
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- Issued also in French under title: Sans frontières : quatre siècles de soins infirmiers canadiens Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0776605917 9780776616674
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- RT6.A1
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- O54 2005eb
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- 1 electronic text (viii, 248 p.)
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326818 (OCoLC)180704550 (CaOOCEL)403735
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Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- Foreword 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 10
- Part One: In the Home 20
- Chapter 1 Lay Nursing from the New France Era to the End of the Nineteenth Century (1608–1891) 20
- Chapter 2 Canadian Midwifery: Blending Traditional and Modern Practices 36
- Chapter 3 The Trained Nurse: Private Duty and VON Home Nursing (Late 1800s to 1940s) 52
- Part Two: In the Hospital 66
- Chapter 4 Healing the Body and Saving the Soul: Nursing Sisters and the First Catholic Hospitals in Quebec (1639–1880) 66
- Chapter 5 The Nightingale Influence and the Rise of the Modern Hospital 82
- Chapter 6 "Body Work," Medical Technology, and Hospital Nursing Practice 98
- Part Three: In the Community 116
- Chapter 7 Public Health Nursing 116
- Part Four: On the Frontier 134
- Chapter 8 Religious Nursing Orders of Canada: A Presence on All Western Frontiers 134
- Chapter 9 Outpost Nursing in Canada 148
- Part Five: On the Battlefield 162
- Chapter 10 Caregiving on the Front: The Experience of Canadian Military Nurses during World War I 162
- Chapter 11 "Ready, Aye Ready": Canadian Military Nurses as an Expandable and Expendable Workforce (1920–2000) 178
- Part Six: In the Classroom, in the Boardroom, and on the Picket Line 192
- Chapter 12 Enough but Not Too Much: Nursing Education in English Language Canada (1874–2000) 192
- Chapter 13 Professionalism and Canadian Nursing 206
- Chapter 14 Unionization of Canadian Nursing 222
- Notes 234
- Selected Readings 252
- Contributors 256
