Nursing, physician control, and the medical monopoly : historical perspectives on gendered inequality in roles, rights, and range of practice / / Thetis M. Group, Joan I. Roberts

• Autore: Group Thetis M.
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (561 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.73/09
• Soggetto topico: Nurse and physician - History; Sexism in medicine - History; Feminism - History; Nursing - History; Nursing - Social aspects - History; Sex discrimination against women - History
• Persona (resp. second.): RobertsJoan I.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-506) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly: An Overview; PART I . Exposing the Meretricious Lies: Early Women Healers and Nurses and the Mythology of Medicine's Natural Supremacy; 1 The Mere Trivia of History?: The Legacy of Early Women Healers and Physicians' Efforts to Exclude or Control Them; 2 She Hath Done What She Could: Reforming Nursing as Physicians Tighten the Medical Monopoly in Great Britain, 1800's to the... ; 3 The Search for American Nursing Origins: Differing Approaches to the History of Nursing and the Medical Monopoly in the Uni PART II. The Purposeful Move toward Dominance: Subordinating Nurses and Achieving a Medical Monopoly; 4 For Their Own Good"": Physicians Manipulating, Trivializing, and Coercing Nurses, Later 1800's to the 1920's; 5 The Exclusive Guardians of All Matters of Health: The Consolidation of Medical Monopoly in the 1920's and 1930's; 6 A Growing Unease: Nurse-Physician Interprofessional Relations from the 1940's to the 1960's ; 7 Reconciling Practice with Protest and Confrontation with Cooperation: Nurse-Physician Relations in the 1970's PART III. An Outdated, Burdensome Model of Monopolistic Control: Entering the Twenty-First Century with a Fractured Health-Ca; 8 Who Needs the Autonomous Professional Nurse? Gender Stereotypes Remain Central to Nurse-Physician Relations; 9 Challenges to the Medical Monopoly: Nurses' Gains in Direct Payment, Hospital Privileges, Prescriptive Authority, and Expan; 10 The Results of the Medical Monopoly: A Regulatory and Policy-Making Quagmire; References; Index; About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights, and Range of Practice Thetis M. Group and Joan I. Roberts A history of physicians' efforts to dominate the healthcare system. Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly traces the efforts by physicians over time to achieve a monopoly in healthcare, often by subordinating nurses -- their only genuine competitors. Attempts by nurses to reform
• Titolo autorizzato: Nursing, physician control, and the medical monopoly
• ISBN: 1-282-06608-0; 9786612066085; 0-253-10861-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812902003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II