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Moss, Jean Russel. "Walking the Tightrope: The Story of Nursing as Told by Nineteenth-Century Nursing Journals," University of Iowa, December 1987. Advisor: Albert E. Stone (11, 22, 14)
This study described and analyzed the cultural messages sent by four nineteenth-century nursing journals to their readers. Ideas about nurse’s characteristics, behaviors, job performance and formal organization presented through the journal’s material-structural features, self-characterizations, editorials, articles and letters were “thickly described” using the framework of Clifford Geertz. The journals asserted a professional model for the nursing profession to follow while ignoring hidden assumptions about women which prevented this model from being fully implemented. Dissonance between ordinary nurses and leaders was recorded in letters, but the debates focused on “cultural artifacts” of the profession, avoiding the real issues.
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