Gender And The Professional Predicament In Nursing by Celia Davies

Gender And The Professional Predicament In Nursing by Celia Davies

Examines the ways in which our understanding of nursing is gendered, and how our notion of nursing is connected to our idea of what it is to be a woman. This work explores the implications this connection has for the status of nursing as a profession, and examines some of the fundamental questions that the nursing profession has tried to address.

"This is a book for nurses about nursingIt is about the emotion, the contradictions, the disappointments, the disarray. If we can identify, discuss, tolerate our conflicts and uncertainties - which this book helps us do - something is happening." - Sociology and Nurse Education Network (Generation of PM publication page100) "I believe this book will generate a necessary reflection about nursing in general, in all its forms, and the role that the nurse should play within the new NHS." - Health Visitor "...its wider significance is the convincing case it makes for seeing the professional predicament of nursing as a central problem that must be solved if we are to create a health service to meet everyone's needs." - British Medical Journal "Celia Davies' book will play a crucial role since it offers both a theoretically informed and policy related analysis of the professional predicament of nursing in the NHS - Journal of Social Policy Celia Davies presents a well structured, extensively referencedanalysis of the development of nursing in relation to both practice and policy arenas and the way in which, to date, this development has been influenced fundamentally by gender issues...this book will undoubtedly be an asset to personal bookshelves, as well as essential readingmaterial for degree study programmes on college library shelves." - Women in Management Review "...of interest and relevance to all those concerned with the future of nursing as an occupation and hence wider issues of health care provision. It is alsouseful for those concerned with theoretical issues regarding gender and employment and makes an important contributionto the sociology of the professions." - Journal of Gender Studies "I strongly recommend all those wishing to mountan effective challenge to both the theory and practice of male dominated welfare organisations to read this scholarly yet innovative and exciting book." - Health Care Analysis "An important demonstration of the masculinity of NHS organizational life, despite the numerical predominanceof women." - Change "...a valuable, ground-breaking contribution to literature on gender and nursing within theUK." - International History of Nursing Journal.

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ISBN 13	9780335194025
ISBN 10	0335194028
Title	Gender And The Professional Predicament In Nursing
Author	Celia Davies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	1995-02-16
Number of pages	236
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