A Cultural History of the Nurse’s Uniform

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This first and only in-depth analysis of the attire worn by the largest body of workers within the health care system explores the role of the nurse’s uniform in creating nursing identity for over a hundred years.

The introduction of the nurse’s uniform within the late nineteenth century used to be a part of a option to legitimize North The united states’s first nursing schools. In the beginning varied and experimental in design, by the early 20th century the uniform used to be drawing on elements of fashionable, scientific, military and ecclesiastical wear, and had standardized into a blue or pink dress worn with stiffly starched white cap, bib, and apron. This remarkable outfit lasted until the 1970s, when educational and societal changes brought about its demise, and practical scrubs became the commonest nursing apparel. Seen through the lens of age, gender, class and race, this book shows how the uniform used to be an active participant within the changing culture of nursing work and thought.

Richly illustrated with images of actual garments and over 150 compelling period photographs, cartoons and drawings, the book explore the uniform inside the contexts of hospital, community, nursing school, and place of abode. A Cultural History of the Nurse’s Uniform will appeal to nurses, historians and scholars of dress.

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