History, Trends, and Politics of Nursing

by Vern L. Bullough

Contents:
Nurses as women: historical insights --
The subordinate sex --
Sex discrimination and nursing education --
Economics of the profession --
Organizational problems in a woman's profession --
Current trends and issues in historical perspective --
Nursing education --
Theory in nursing --
The changing nursing scene --
Hospitals --
Growing problems in nursing ethics --
The law and nursing practice --
Nursing and politics.

170 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1984

About the author

Vern Leroy Bullough (July 24, 1928 – June 21, 2006) was an American historian and sexologist.

He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), Faculty President at California State University, Northridge, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past Dean of natural and social sciences at the Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York, one of the founders of the American Association for the History of Nursing, and a member of the editorial board of Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia.

Until her death in 1996 he was married to Bonnie Bullough