Called to Nurse: Nursing, Race, and Americanization in Early 20thCentury Puerto Rico
Nursing History Review
; 26: 138-171, 2018.
Article
in English
| HISA - History of Health
| ID: his-43677
Responsible library:
BR1273.1
ABSTRACT
The article begins with a description of the consonances between Americanization and the overall Portestant missionary project to establish missionaries'relationship to the imperial project. it also argue tha pre-1898 material conditions and ideologies pushed missionaires tom odify their original plans for recruiting nursing studentes which produced a more inclusive admission policy. Two decades later, however, amreicanization wrought changes in thise arenas that led to a racially exclusive policy. The article addresses worthy citizens of Christian America, a finer womanhood,a stronger manhood, and a healthier nation, Rosa A. González and the professionalization of nursing, the unknown facts, and the problems of recruiting consecrated women, and no sorority of consciousness.(AU)
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Collection:
Tematic databases
Health context:
Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas
Health problem:
Goal 3 Human resources for health
Database:
HISA - History of Health
Main subject:
Racial Groups
/
History, 20th Century
/
History of Nursing
Aspects:
Social determinants of health
Country/Region as subject:
Puerto Rico
Language:
English
Journal:
Nursing History Review
Year:
2018
Document type:
Article