Ordered to care : the dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945

List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: the dilemma of caring Part I. The Nurse and the Hospital Before Training: 1. 'Professed' nursing: from duty to trade 2. Chaos and order in hospital nursing Part II. The Trained Nurse: An Apprentice to Duty: 3. Character as skill: the ideology of discipline 4. Training as work: the pupil nurse as hospital machine 5. 'Strangers to Boston': who becomes a nurse 6. Nursing as work: divisions in the occupation Part III. The 'Re-Forming' of Nursing: 7. Professionalization and its discontents 8. Nursing efficiency as the link between service and science 9. The limits of 'collaborative relationships' 10. Great transformation, small change Conclusion Appendix Notes Note on sources Select bibliography of primary sources Index.