Creator:
Falcon, Nicholas Coyle
Date:
1984
Abstract:
This thesis presents an examination of the processes surrounding the subordination of nursing labour in Canadian hospitals during the nineteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on the appropriation by hospitals of, first, the nursing practices of female lay practitioners, and second, the knowledge and skills which lay at the heart of those practices. In addition, the conditions of female labour at the end, of the nineteenth century are examined in order to explain why women subordinated their labour to hospitals.
Subject:
Nursing -- Canada -- History
Hospitals -- Canada -- History
Language:
English
Publisher:
Carleton University
Identifier:
Thesis Degree Name:
Master of Arts:
M.A.
Thesis Degree Level:
Master's
Thesis Degree Discipline:
Sociology
Parent Collection:
Theses and Dissertations