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Author Sandelowski, Margarete.

Title Devices & desires : gender, technology, and American nursing / Margarete Sandelowski.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  610.7309 S214D    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.
Contents Troubling relations -- Object lessons -- The utensils and materials at hand -- The physician's eyes -- Truly and technically nursing -- Spectacular nursing -- Troubled borders.
Summary The author traces the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present. She argues that while technology has helped shape and intensify persistent dilemmas in nursing, it has also both advanced and impeded the development of the nursing profession.
Subject Nursing -- United States -- History.
Medical technology -- United States -- History.
History of Nursing. (DNLM)D006676
Biomedical Technology -- history. (DNLM)D020811Q000266
United States. (DNLM)D014481
44.63 nursing. (NL-LeOCL)077596587
Medical technology. (OCoLC)fst01014742
Nursing. (OCoLC)fst01041731
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Krankenpflege (DE-588)4032813-2
Medizintechnik (DE-588)4074676-8
United States (DE-588)4078704-7
Technologie (DE-588)4059276-5
Gesundheitswesen (DE-588)4020775-4
Krankenschwester (DE-588)4032826-0
Verpleegkunde.
Medische techniek.
Beïnvloeding.
United States.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Devices and desires
Other Form: Online version: Sandelowski, Margarete. Devices & desires. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)606437222
Online version: Sandelowski, Margarete. Devices & desires. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)607749322
ISBN 0807825794 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807825792 (cloth ; alk. paper)
080784893X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807848937 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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