Discipline of Nursing: Three-time Knowledge

Book Description Nursing students' access to higher education does not mark the beginning of basic scientific research into this discipline, and it is now a struggle for this fact to remain visible.Prejudices, misrepresentations and myths mislead nurses about the origins of nursing knowledge. Discipline of Nursing allows us to compare significant nursing figures: Florence Nightingale (Great Britain) and her equally valuable counterpart Valérie de Gasparin-Boissier (Switzerland). The two distinct training models proposed by these illustrious women have retained their relevance into the 21st Century since as early as 1859.
The discipline of nursing seems to be arranged in almost geological layers of knowledge that we can distinguish by studying the traditions of nursing language. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the nature of services provided by nurses worldwide.

Content

Part 1. Lay Knowledge
Chapter 1. Role of History
Chapter 2. The Hospital as a Place to Talk
Chapter 3. Care Before 1850
Chapter 4. Practices and Knowledge
Chapter 5. A Return to Image: Minion Syndrome

Part 2. Protodisciplinary Knowledge
Chapter 6. From Hospital-School to School-Hospital
Chapter 7. The Advent of Medical Writing
Chapter 8. Towards Higher Education
Chapter 9. A Return to Image: The Shaping of Knowledge

Part 3. Scientific Knowledge
Chapter 10. Nursing Sciences?
Chapter 11. The Construction of the Discipline
Chapter 12. Identity and Discipline
Chapter 13. A Return to Image: “Where Do We Go Now”?