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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...

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Published in:Women's History Review Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 403 - 423
Main Author: Heggie, Vanessa
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2011
Subjects:
Women
Medical care
Victorian Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901
Reign of Edward VII, Great Britain, 1901-1910
Nurses
History of nursing
Women employees
United Kingdom
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