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History Of Modern American Nursing
When the Crimean War ended in 1856, patient mortality at British hospitals was forty-two percent. Despite the fact that Joseph Lister introduced the concept of antisepsis as early as 1867, the germ theory of disease would not be adopted for another several decades. Nevertheless, already by the end of the American Civil War in 1865, Union hospitals had treated over one million battlefield casualties, with only eight percent mortality. Mainly, historians credit Florence Nightengale, whose campaign for cleanliness and hygiene in hospitals fortuitously predated the crucial implementation of medical antisepsis in modern medicine (Starr, 1984).
Women in Early American Medicine:
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, admission to formal medical education was largely restricted to males until Quakers in Philadelphia founded the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1850. While more than a dozen women's medical schools were...
The only accredited medical institution that admitted women was Johns Hopkins, so women interested in medical careers were essentially relegated to being midwives rather than physicians (Wertz & Wertz, 1979).
Evolution Professional Nursing:
Nursing was practically unknown as a trained profession until the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and more often than not, nursing was a task borne by lower class women and even prisoners, since penitentiary inmates were sometimes conscripted into medical service. In many instances, practicing physicians strongly resisted the establishment of any formal training in nursing, out…
References
Caplan, A.L., Engelhardt, H.T., McCartney, J.J. Eds. (1981) Concepts of Health and Disease: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Starr, P. (1984) The Social Transformation of American Medicine.
New York: Basic Books
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