Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity

by Julia Hallam

Overview

This is the first full-length British study of nurses in the media and popular culture. Other texts are American or focus on doctors

It is the first text to consider nursing as a discourse on white femininity

Nurses are in the process of constructing a new professional identity and will welcome this deconstruction of popular images of nursing

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134668250
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Julia Hallam is Director of English and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Images, identities and selves; Chapter 2 The popular imagination; Chapter 3 The professional imagination; Chapter 4 The personal imagination; Chapter 5 The contemporary imagination;