Politics of Nursing Knowledge

Anne Marie Rafferty is Director of the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford

• Introduction 1 Reformatory rhetoric 2 The character of training and training of character 3 Registration revisited 4 The Nurses’ Registration Act 5 Crisis and conflict in the Caretaker Council (1919–23) 6 The education policy of the General Nursing Council (1919–32) 7 Commission and committee in nurse education policy (1930–9) 8 Nationalising nursing education (1939–48), Conclusion

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