04193nam 2200817 a 450 991081461300332120200520144314.01-134-66825-20-203-13602-01-134-66826-01-280-01865-80-203-17115-2978661001865910.4324/9780203136027 (CKB)1000000000252297(EBL)165601(OCoLC)49569394(SSID)ssj0000212987(PQKBManifestationID)11201701(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212987(PQKBWorkID)10140465(PQKB)11035450(MiAaPQ)EBC165601(EXLCZ)99100000000025229720011112d2000 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrNursing the image media, culture and professional identity /Julia Hallam1st ed.London Routledge20001 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-18455-X 0-415-18454-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Nursing the images: Media, culture and professional identity; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Illustration acknowledgements; Introduction: (Auto)biography, research and feminist cultural studies; 1. Images, identities and selves; Images: nursing and femininity; Identities: nurses and their professional image; Selves: personal conceptions of professional identity; 2. The popular imagination; Reification and recruitment: images in post-war Britain; Irreverence and romance: the 1950's and 1960's; Fascination and aspiration: the romantic idealSoap, sex and satire: the late 1960's and early 1970's 3. The professional imagination; A divided identity; Class divisions: job or profession?; Gender divisions: men enter the picture; Racial divisions: visible differences; Image and identity: Briggs and the image of nursing; 4. The personal imagination; Self-image and uniform identities; Knowing your place: hierarchy, status and the self; Out of place: re-location, racism and the 'other'; The 'proper nurse': self as image, image as self; 5. The contemporary imagination; Recruitment in crisis; Romance in crisisEqual opportunities in crisis: medical drama Carry on caring; Notes; References and bibliography; IndexIdeas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations.How has this image come to be constructed?An empirical investigation of representations of nursing practices in Britain focusing on publicity and promotional materials and their relationship to popular fictional narratives reveals a strong correlation between what are usually described as discrete forms of signification. Recruitment images, provide anNursesGreat BritainPublic opinionNursesGreat BritainPsychologySex roleGreat BritainProfessional socializationGreat BritainNursingSocial aspectsGreat BritainFeminist theoryNursesGreat BritainPrejudicesGreat BritainSocial perceptionGreat BritainStereotyping (Printing)Great BritainNursesPublic opinion.NursesPsychology.Sex roleProfessional socializationNursingSocial aspectsFeminist theory.NursesPrejudicesSocial perceptionStereotyping (Printing)610.730941Hallam Julia1952-893446MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814613003321Nursing the image3970524UNINA