Kathryn M. McPherson's Books

Bedside Matters

The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990

By: Kathryn M. McPherson,Kathryn McPherson

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Bedside Matters

The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990

By: Kathryn M. McPherson,Kathryn McPherson

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

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University of Toronto Press

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0802086799

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9780802086792

Nature's Civil War

Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

By: Kathryn J. Shively

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Nature's Civil War

Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

By: Kathryn J. Shively

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, plus a wealth of additional personal accounts, medical sources, newspapers, and government documents, Kathryn Shively Meier reveals how these soldiers strove to maintain their physical and mental health by combating their deadliest enemy--nature. Meier explores how soldiers forged informal networks of health care based on prewar civilian experience and adopted a universal set of self-care habits, including boiling water, altering camp terrain, eradicating insects, supplementing their diets with fruits and vegetables, constructing protective shelters, and most controversially, straggling. In order to improve their health, soldiers periodically had to adjust their ideas of manliness, class values, and race to the circumstances at hand. While self-care often proved superior to relying upon the inchoate military medical infrastructure, commanders chastised soldiers for testing army discipline, ultimately redrawing the boundaries of informal health care.

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236

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UNC Press Books

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1469610779

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9781469610771

Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work

The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900

By: Kathryn Kish Sklar

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Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work

The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900

By: Kathryn Kish Sklar

One of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book is also a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change, when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. This first of a two-volume series covers the first 40 years of Florence Kelley's life. 53 illustrations.

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460

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Yale University Press

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0300072856

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9780300072853

Making the Case

Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument

By: Kathryn M. Olson,Michael William Pfau,Benjamin Ponder,Kirt H. Wilson

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Making the Case

Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument

By: Kathryn M. Olson,Michael William Pfau,Benjamin Ponder,Kirt H. Wilson

In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who’s who of public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and to demonstrate how critical inquiry into a specific moment speaks to general contexts and theories. Providing both a theoretical framework and a wealth of historically situated texts, Making the Case spans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America. The authors examine the dynamic interplay of texts and their concomitant rhetorical situations by drawing on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments put forward by activists and presidents in the nineteenth century, inventive economic pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and method of Barack Obama.

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399

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MSU Press

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1609173449

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9781609173449

American Stories

Biographies in United States History

By: Kathryn A. Abbott,Patricia H. Minter

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American Stories

Biographies in United States History

By: Kathryn A. Abbott,Patricia H. Minter

This two-volume collection of sixty-two biographies in United States history is free when packaged with Prentice Hall U.S. history texts. Introductions, pre-reading questions, and suggested resources enrich this supplement.

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0131826549

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Book's by Kathryn M. McPherson

Bedside Matters

Bedside Matters

Nature's Civil War

Nature's Civil War

Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work

Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work

Making the Case

Making the Case

American Stories

American Stories

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