| History 364/H546 | DR. SCHNEIDER |
| History of Medicine and Public Health |
Hospitals and Modern Nursing
These readings complete the examination of changes in medicine during the nineteenth century before the impact of the germ theory. The creation of modern nursing completed three main elements that transformed hospitals (what were the other two?)
Porter, 375-88 "Hospitals and Nursing"
What was the traditional source of nurses?
What were the main new nursing reform movements in the 19th century?
What was the role of nurses in changing the nature of hospitals?
Description of Sairy Gamp, nurse and midwife
from Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
What does Dickens' description of Sairy Gamp tell us about the view of nurses in the first half of the 19th century? ((Sister Chiara, 1663 as another model)
Florence Nightingale and nursing reform
"Florence Nightingale: obituary in London Times
Richard H. Shryock, "Nursing Emerges as a Profession: The American Experience,"
What does Florence Nightingale's career demonstrate about changes in nursing?
What was her background?
What gave her an opportunity and how did she take advantage of it?
How widespread was her influence? Why did a myth develop?
Hospitals in 1900
Porter, 83-88; 103-105; 112-13; 236-41; 297-99
Rothman
Massachusetts General Hospital,"By-Laws, Rules and Regulations (1861)," 365-67
What were hospitals like in 1800? In 1861 (e.g. Mass general)? In 1900?