Celebrating Nurses: A Visual History

by Christine E. Hallett and Joan E. Lynaugh

Book Overview

This refreshing narrative history of nursing marks an exception to standard, often dry academic descriptions of the nursing profession. It presents dramatic, highly readable illustrated stories of nursing's pioneering, often heroic leaders. Following an account of early nineteenth-century nursing practice during the Napoleonic Wars, the book goes on to highlight the life and work of Florence Nightingale who, in the 1850s, elevated nursing to a respected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764162861
• ISBN13: 9780764162862
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: B.E.S.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.3"