Article ID: CBB389754765

Personalities, Preferences and Practicalities: Educating Nurses in Wound Sepsis in the British Hospital, 1870–1920 (2018)

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The history of nursing education has often been portrayed as the subordination of nursing to medicine. Yet, as scholars are increasingly acknowledging, the professional boundaries between medicine and nursing were fluid in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when both scientific knowledge and systems of nurse training were in flux. Through its focus on the role of medical practitioners in educating nurses in wound sepsis at four British hospitals between 1870 and 1920, this article attempts to further unite histories of medicine and nursing. It demonstrates that, in this period of uncertainty, the ideas and practices relating to antisepsis, asepsis and bacteriology disseminated to nursing probationers depended on the individual instructor. In demonstrating the localised nature of nursing education, this article argues that further analyses of clinical problems like wound sepsis may enable historians to more clearly identify the importance of professional collaboration within the hospital.

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Authors & Contributors
Schlich, Thomas
Igor Telichkin
Vu, Anthony K.
Fitzharris, Lindsey
Adams, Caroline
Mangione, Salvatore
Concepts
Antisepsis
Surgery
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
Nurses and nursing
Women and health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Hungary
England
London (England)
Cambridge (England)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal College of Surgeons, London
St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London)
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