The Relation of the Nurse to the Working World: Professionalization, Citizenship, and Class in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States before World War I
SMC Affiliated Work
1
Status
Faculty
School
School of Liberal Arts
Department
History
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Publication / Conference / Sponsorship
Nursing History Review
Description/Abstract
Campaigns for state nursing registration in the United States and Great Britain have a prominent place in the historical scholarship on nursing professionalization; the closely related German campaign has received less scholarly attention. Applying a transnational perspective to these three national movements highlights the collaborative and interrelated nature of nursing reform prior to World War I and recognizes the important contribution of German nurses to this dialogue and agenda. Focusing particularly on the years 1909–12, this article depicts a generation of German, American, and British nurses who organized national and international nursing associations to realize state registration as a stepping stone to other markers of professional recognition, such as collegiate education, full political citizenship, social welfare, and labor legislation. However, the consequent reliance of these strategies on nation-states as arbiters of citizenship and professional status undermined the shared ideological foundation of international and national nursing leaders. This article contributes to a more multinational understanding of how these international nursing leaders transcended and were confined by the limits of their nation-states in the years leading up to World War I.
Scholarly
yes
Peer Reviewed
1
DOI
10.1891/1062-8061.18.51
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History
Original Citation
Soine, Aeleah. "‘The Relation of the Nurse to the Working World’: Professionalization, Citizenship, and Class in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States before World War I." Nursing History Review, vol 18, iss. 1, 2010: 51-80. https://doi.org/10.1891/1062-8061.18.51
Repository Citation
Soine, Aeleah. The Relation of the Nurse to the Working World: Professionalization, Citizenship, and Class in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States before World War I (2010). Nursing History Review. 10.1891/1062-8061.18.51 [article]. https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/school-liberal-arts-faculty-works/624
