Health Visiting and District Nursing in Victorian Manchester; divergent and convergent vocations.
Community nursing and public health work provided many Victorian and Edwardian women in Britain with the opportunity of a career and professional training. Such work created contradictions, not least the tension between 'inherent' female skills and the role of learnt professionalism. This article di...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 403 - 423 |
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