American nursing : a history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work /
Patricia D'Antonio.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010.
- XVIII, 251 S. :
Nursing and physicians in nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Competence, coolness, courage, and control -- They went nursing, in early twentieth-century America -- Wives, mothers, and nurses -- Race, place, and professional identity -- A tale of two associations : White and African American nurses in North Carolina -- Who is a nurse?