Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899 - Helmstadter, Carol a Godden, Judith

A study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. It is of interest to those studying the history of medicine, labour, religion, gender studies and the rise of a respectable society in the nineteenth century.