The physician's eyes American nursing and the diagnostic revolution in medicine

Nursing History Review

Volumn 8, Issue , 2000, Pages 3-38

  Sandelowski, Margarete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; HISTORY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATION; RADIOGRAPHY; STETHOSCOPE; THERMOMETER; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATION; RADIOGRAPHY; STETHOSCOPES; THERMOMETERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033630993     PISSN: 10628061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1062-8061.8.1.3     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Robert A. Kilduffe, "The Nurse and Her Relation to Symptomatology, I: The Pulse," Trained Nurse and Hospital Review 65, no. 6 (1920): 498.
2. Rosemary Stevens, In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books, 1989). According to Stevens (p. 12), nurses were "captured by the hospital and institutionally subsumed."
3. Anselm Strauss et al., "Sentimental Work in the Technologized Hospital," Sociology of Health & Illness 4, no. 3 (1982): 254-77.
4. The classic work in this field is Stanley Joel Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1978).
5. See also by Reiser, "Technology and the Eclipse of Individualism in Medicine," The Pharos 45. no. 1 (1982): 10-15;
6. "The Science of Diagnosis: Diagnostic Technology," in Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine, ed. W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (London: Routledge, 1993), 2:826-51;
7. and, "Technology and the Use of the Senses in Twentieth-Century Medicine," in Medicine and the Five Senses, eds. W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 1993), 262-73.
8. Other key scholarship in this field includes the works of Joel D. Howell and Audrey B. Davis. See Howell's "Early Use of X-ray Machines and Electrocardiographs at the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1897 through 1927," Journal of the American Medical Association 255, no. 17 (1986): 2320-23;
9. Technology and American Medical Practice. 1880-1930: Anthology of Sources (New York: Garland Press, 1988);
10. "Machines and Medicine: Technology Transforms the American Hospital," in The American General Hospital: Communities and Social Contexts, ed. Diana Elizabeth Long and Janet Golden (Ithaca, N.V.: Cornell University Press, 1989), 109-34;
11. and. Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
12. See Davis, Medicine and its Technology: An Introduction to the History of Medical Instrumentation (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981);
13. and "American Medicine in the Gilded Age: The First Technological Era," Annals of Science 47 (1990): 111-25.