Devices & Desires

Devices & Desires Gender, Technology, and American Nursing - Studies in Social Medicine

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Publisher's Synopsis

Nurses have used a variety of tools, instruments and machines to appraise, treat and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from 1870 to the present, this text shows that technology has helped shape dilemmas in nursing and advance the profession's development.

Book information

ISBN: 9780807825792
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
Edition: New edition
DEWEY: 610.730973
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 562g
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 25mm