For 150 years, district nurses have been taking care of the sick in their own homes, providing health care, moral support, and wise advice to people of all ages and classes, in rural areas, towns and cities the length and breadth of the country. Begun in 1860s Liverpool by philanthropist William Rathbone, the District Nursing Movement was founded to care for the poor who had no access to medical care. This illuminating book shows how the role of the district nurse has moved on greatly since Queen Victoria's Jubilee, expanding and developing to provide a broad range of invaluable health care services in the community.
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Shows how the role of the district nurse has moved on greatly since Queen Victoria's Jubilee, expanding and developing to provide a broad range of invaluable health care services in the community.

Introduction
The Early Years
The Growth of District Nursing
Dress, Equipment and Transport
Wartime: 1914–18
Between the World Wars
Wartime, the National Health Service and Beyond
Further Reading
Index

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A history of the District Nurses, who have cared for the less well off for 150 years.
A list of fully illustrated paperback introductions to a swathe of British history, heritage and nostalgia, from Agricultural Hand Tools to Women in the Second World War, with themes including motoring, churches, railways, fashion, military history, women’s history, social history, architecture, agriculture and ceramics.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780747808084
Publisert
2010-11-10
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Shire Publications
Vekt
136 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
5 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
56

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Susan Cohen is an historian with a wide interest in twentieth-century British social history and refugee studies. She has written and lectured widely on a variety of subjects. Her other books include Rescue the Perishing: Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees and Where to Take Tea.