Devices and Desires

Author: Margarete Sandelowski
Edition: 1
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B007K4URZM

Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing (Studies in Social Medicine)

Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Medical books Devices and Desires. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurses have necessarily used a variety of tools, instruments, and machines—from thermometers to cardiac monitors—to appraise, treat, and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present, Margarete Sandelowski argues that technology has helped shape and intensify persistent dilemmas in nursing and that it has both advanced and impeded the development of the profession.

Sandelowski examines key moments in the history of nursing that dramatize the ironies of the nursing-technology relationship. She demonstrates that nurses both embraced and rejected technology in their pursuit of cultural visibility and professional autonomy—with varying amounts of success Medical books Devices and Desires. Devices and Desires: D. James

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PD James: Devices and Desires [2 Discs]

PD James: Devices and Desires [2 Discs]

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems, and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychopathic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing.When murder reaches the headland one moonlit night, Dalgliesh finds himself involved in a particularly horrible crime and in the tangled emotions and motives of the suspects. PD James, OBE, has won many awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavi

Medical Book Devices and Desires

Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurses have necessarily used a variety of tools, instruments, and machines—from thermometers to cardiac monitors—to appraise, treat, and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from the 1870s to the present, Margarete Sandelowski argues that technology has helped shape and intensify persistent dilemmas in nursing and that it has both advanced and impeded the development of the profession.

Sandelowski examines key moments in the history of nursing that dramatize the ironies of the nursing-technology relationship. She demonstrates that nurses both embraced and rejected technology in their pursuit of cultural visibility and professional autonomy—with varying amounts of success.

As one of the domains of female work historically most subject to sex segregation, Sandelowski notes, nursing provides an ideal site in which to examine the interplay of technology and gender.