* The Risk of Not Understanding Nursing History 3 * A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective 10 * Florence Nightingale: Reformer, Reactionary, Researcher 26 * The Fateful Decade, 1890-1900 39 * Nursing and the Great Depression 42 * The Lasting Impact of World War II on Nursing 47 * The Public Image of the Nurse 55 * The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health 74 * Nurse, Interrupted 79 * Nursing Schools Perplexed by Falling Enrollments 89 * The Struggle for Just Compensation 94 * Trouble in Nurse Labor Market? Recent Trends and Future Outlook 106 * Black Nurses in the United States: 1879-1992 122 * Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the Profession 128 * Promoting Cultural and Racial Diversity in Nursing: The Need for Political Activism 135 * Alternative Medicine: Values and Risks 145 * Alternative and Complementary Healing: Implications for Nursing 150 * What We May Expect From the Law 171 * Why We Need a Patients' Bill of Rights 175 * The Wrong Rights 182 * Seeking Confidentiality of Medical Records 185 * The Real Meaning of Patient-Nurse Confidentiality 190 * Medical Records: Enhancing Privacy, Preserving the Common Good 201 * Manners, Morals, and Nurses: An Historical Overview of Nursing Ethics 223 * Genetic Engineering: Is it Morally Acceptable? 229 * Fountain of Youth 235 * A World of Immortal Men 237 * Redrawing the Ethics Map 239 * Health Care Rationing in the Aged 243 * "Making the Best of Things": Technology in American Nursing, 1870-1940 262 * Looking to Care or Caring to Look? Technology and the Rise of Spectacular Nursing 279 * Healthcare: Technology in the New Millennium 291 * How Will the Internet Change our Health System? 295 * The Old Homeless and the New Homelessness in Historical Perspective 311 * Helping People off the Streets: Real Solutions to Urban Homelessness 322 * Not Gone, but Forgotten? 327 * Faces of the Uninsured 330 * Myths of the Uninsured 337 * Infection with HIV in the Elderly Population 340 * U.S. Faces TB Threat 350 * The Meaning of Aging and the Future of Social Security 359 * The Age Wave 366 * Ethical and Policy Considerations for Centenarians: The Oldest Old 371 * The Gunfire Dialogues 386 * The Movies Made Me Do It 391 * Media Insensitivity to Victims of Violence 395 * The Least Among Us: Children of Substance-Abusing Parents 402 * Hidden Bruises 406 * Elder Abuse and Neglect 409 * Managed Care Evolution: Where Did it Come From and Where is it Going? 423 * Managed Care: Devils, Angels, and the Truth in Between 432 * What's Behind the Public's Backlash? 441 * Managed Care at a Crossroads 445 * Healing Medicare 459 * What Price Coverage Reform? 469 * Problems with the Medicare Drug Benefit Plan.And What Can Be Done 474 * Free Health Care Does Not Exist 480 * Nursing's Past, Present and Future Political Experiences 486 * Washington: Will Congress Stop Playing Politics With Health Care? 495 * They're Here, They're Gray 502 * A Backward Glimpse 511 * Looking Ahead with the Nursing Profession 514 * Nursing in the Decade Ahead 519 * The Future of the Nursing Profession 525
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