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Nurses are often the first and last people to touch us. They are at the bedside of the sickest and most vulnerable; they give us good news and bad; and offer support, expertise, and connection in the darkest moments. They have insight to combat the most pressing problems of our time: climate change, reproductive rights, equity in medicine. Nurses expertly engage with the grief and joy of all humanity, and have done so throughout human history: Nursing...
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Offers a sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, paying homage to the profession and making an urgent call for change. DiGregorio chronicles the lives of nurses past and tells the stories of those today--caregivers at the vital intersection of health care and community who are actively changing the world, often invisibly. A work that combines storytelling with nuanced reporting, this volume examines how we have always...
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"By chronicling the transformation of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools of confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to understanding today's hospitals. The story is told in a dozen episodes which illustrate hospitals in particular times and places, covering important themes and...
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