Devices & Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing [Paperback]

Margarete Sandelowski (Author)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Scholarly Book Services Inc (Jun 27 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080784893X
ISBN-13: 978-0807848937
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 472 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #798,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"This brilliant book shows just how much the 'charitable, devotional and altruistic' image of the nurse conceals." -- The Nation --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Margarete Sandelowski is professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Her books include Pain, Pleasure, and American Childbirth: From the Twilight Sleep to the Read Method, 1914-1960 and With Child in Mind: Studies of the Personal Encounter with Infertility.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Changed the way I think, May 4 2006

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This review is from: Devices & Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing (Paperback)

This book changed the way I nurse, the way I think of myself as a nurse and the way I think about nursing, in fact, the way I think about myself as a person. It makes me realize that if nurses are to be more than technicians, that nursing is primarily an ethical exercise. Who you are, your character, directs what you do with the knowledge you have. Any skill, nursing or otherwise, can be used for good or ill. It is the one wielding the skill that aims at the mark. Sometimes you miss, but if you don't aim, hitting is just dumb luck and a poor bet. I apply the same logic to physicians, plumbers, priests, politicians, judges, and garage mechanics. Margaret Sandelowski, I hope you read this. Thanks.

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