TY - BOOK ID - 78143516 TI - Bedside Matters PY - 2003 SN - 1442627980 9781442627987 9780802086792 0802086799 9780195412192 0195412192 1442658908 9781442658905 PB - Toronto DB - UniCat KW - Nursing KW - Nurses KW - History of Nursing KW - Nursing, History KW - History Nursing KW - Nursing History KW - Nursing Care KW - Nurses and nursing KW - Registered nurses KW - RNs (Registered nurses) KW - Medical personnel KW - Clinical nursing KW - Nursing process KW - Care of the sick KW - Medicine KW - History KW - history KW - Canada KW - Canada. KW - Canada (Province) KW - Canadae KW - Ceanada KW - Chanada KW - Chanadey KW - Dominio del Canadá KW - Dominion of Canada KW - Jianada KW - Kʻaenada KW - Kaineḍā KW - Kanada KW - Ḳanadah KW - Kanadaja KW - Kanadas KW - Ḳanade KW - Kanado KW - Kanakā KW - Province of Canada KW - Republica de Canadá KW - Yn Chanadey UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143516 AB - Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they performed, and how they organized to defend their occupational interests. Whether in the apprenticeship method of the early twentieth century or in the present day restructuring of hospital work, the position of nurses within the health-care system has been structured by class, gender, and ethnic and racial relations. Located between the doctors and untrained or subsidiary patient-care attendants, nurses have struggled to define the boundaries of their occupation vis à vis other members of the health-care hierarchy, even as tensions between bedside and administrative nurses created divisions within nursing itself.Focusing on the daily labours of 'ordinary nurses', McPherson argues that the persisting sex-typing of nursing as women's work has meant that gender consistently complicated nursing's easy categorization as either professional or proletariat. Combining archival records and oral histories, the author shows how nurses, in their work, activities, and social and sexual attitudes, sought recognition as skilled workers in the health-care system.Previously published by Oxford University Press ER -