Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922

by Katrin Schultheiss

In the French Third Republic, nursing was an occupation caught in the crosscurrents of conflicting notions about the role of women. This deft political history shows how the turmoil and transformation of nursing during this period reflected the political and cultural tensions at work in the nation, including critical conflicts over the role of the Church in society, the professionalization of medicine, the organization and growing militancy of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674004914
• ISBN13: 9780674004917
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"