Nursing the image media, culture and professional identity
Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations.How has this image come to be constructed?...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge
2000.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798052906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Nursing the images: Media, culture and professional identity; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Illustration acknowledgements; Introduction: (Auto)biography, research and feminist cultural studies; 1. Images, identities and selves; Images: nursing and femininity; Identities: nurses and their professional image; Selves: personal conceptions of professional identity; 2. The popular imagination; Reification and recruitment: images in post-war Britain; Irreverence and romance: the 1950's and 1960's; Fascination and aspiration: the romantic ideal
- Soap, sex and satire: the late 1960's and early 1970's 3. The professional imagination; A divided identity; Class divisions: job or profession?; Gender divisions: men enter the picture; Racial divisions: visible differences; Image and identity: Briggs and the image of nursing; 4. The personal imagination; Self-image and uniform identities; Knowing your place: hierarchy, status and the self; Out of place: re-location, racism and the 'other'; The 'proper nurse': self as image, image as self; 5. The contemporary imagination; Recruitment in crisis; Romance in crisis
- Equal opportunities in crisis: medical drama Carry on caring; Notes; References and bibliography; Index
