The decline of myths and myopia? The use and abuse of nursing history.
Since 1980 a 'new' history of nursing has been emerging, one that attempts to address serious problems within nursing historiography such as the subordination of nursing history to medical history. There is a need for nurses to reject the narrow celebratory narratives produced by typical amateur medical historians. While problems of 'outsiders' writing the history of professions have been highlighted, problems inherent in the production of their own history by 'insiders' have been overlooked. A critical approach to the history of nursing will display different qualities and emphases to most previous writing in this field.
Godden
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Curry
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Delacour
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D006663:Historiography; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans