id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yde4g4crcrga7a6kpcxehgxrsi Julie Fairman Book Review Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden , Nursing Before Nightingale, 1815–1899, The History of Medicine in Context (Surrey, England: Ashgate Press, 2011), pp. 242, $119.95, hardback, ISBN: 9781409423133 2012 3 .pdf application/pdf 1785 89 50 Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden, Nursing Before Nightingale, 1815–1899, The Victorian roles for women, her ideas on nursing, as Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden point out in their book, Nursing Before Nightingale, were not always implemented as for reforming nursing care in hospitals. Helmstadter and Godden examine pre Nightingale nurses from their perspective as paradigm in nursing in the twentieth century) in the context of pre-industrial nineteenthcentury England, its living conditions, hospitals and religious conflicts, and raise important As the authors argue, modern nursing did not begin with Nightingale, although Nightingale is one reason modern nursing exists as it does. evidence for pre-Nightingale origins of nursing reform, including the development of Nightingale's ideas for hospital nursing reform – the need for continuity of clinical controlled nurses in the hospitals, Nightingale had little power to marry clinical experience Helmstadter and Godden's book is a clear and concise analysis of nursing reform ./cache/work_yde4g4crcrga7a6kpcxehgxrsi.pdf ./txt/work_yde4g4crcrga7a6kpcxehgxrsi.txt