The power of care: the Women's Hospital 1884-1914.
The effectiveness of late-nineteenth-century nursing care should not be underestimated. The archive of patient records at Melbourne's Women's Hospital reveals a commitment to patient care that more often than not made the difference between life and death in the recovery from major surgery or post-partum infection. These records suggest the need to reassess the role of medical care in the mortality transition after 1850.
McCalman
J
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Centre for the Study of Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006786:Hospitals, Urban / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000266:history; D008499:Medical Records; D011247:Pregnancy; D011269:Pregnancy, Abdominal / Q000266:history; D014739:Victoria; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000266:history*