2009
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-07072009000400019
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Thinking about place: researching and reading the global history of nursing

Abstract: This paper considers place as a category of analysis. As nursing as a practice discipline and the history of nursing as a field of scholarship both enter a more self-consciously global arena and scholars are moving beyond the nation and the nation-state as the primary context for historical inquiry. At the same time, the work of nursing is, has been, and always will be a very private and intimate act. This paper considers two challenges to those interested in exploring how the history of nursing might consider… Show more

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“…This research modality contributes to the understanding of the history of health care and supports interpretations of the development of the profession, its actors and social contexts. In the case of Nursing, it is intended to understand the nature and daily life of work, prejudices, stereotypes, misconceptions, truths, untruths and their meanings (8)(9)(10) .…”
Section: Ethical Aspectsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This research modality contributes to the understanding of the history of health care and supports interpretations of the development of the profession, its actors and social contexts. In the case of Nursing, it is intended to understand the nature and daily life of work, prejudices, stereotypes, misconceptions, truths, untruths and their meanings (8)(9)(10) .…”
Section: Ethical Aspectsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When the institutionalization of nursing is recovered, a retreat of intervention in the domestic, private and family sphere is observed, to a movement of insertion in the public space, even in the 19th century, with the re-structuring of health care systems and the resizing of practices in the national context, with a predominance in the global scenario, still of private acts geared to individual care (20) .…”
Section: Dilemmas and Challenges Of Nursingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The growing trend for nursing histories to be connected globally and internationally has given rise to seeking the development of common philosophical and theoretical foundations (D’Antonio 2009; Howell, Rafferty and Snaith 2011; Grypma and Wu 2012). For example, an international perspective can be drawn from the analysis of the creation of the USA ‘public health nurse’ a century ago by Lillian Wald (Reverby 1993) and the health visitor role in the UK (Brooks and Rafferty 2010).…”
Section: Previous Scholarshipmentioning
confidence: 99%