Devices & Desires - 9780807848937
Un libro in lingua di Margarete Sandelowski edito da Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2000
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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 history of nursing that dramatize the ironies of the nursing-technology relationship. She demonstrates that nurses both embraced and rejected technology in their pursuit of cultural visibility and professional autonomy?with varying amounts of success.
As one of the domains of female work historically most subject to sex segregation, Sandelowski notes, nursing provides an ideal site in which to examine the interplay of technology and gender.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Devices & Desires
- Sottotitolo: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Margarete Sandelowski
- Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
- Collana: Univ of North Carolina Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Novembre '00
- Genere: MEDICAL
- Argomenti : Nursing United States History Medical technology United States History History of Nursing United States
- Pagine: 295
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 146 x 25
- ISBN-10: 080784893X
- EAN-13: 9780807848937