Table of Contents
Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly:
Historical Perspectives on Gendered Inequality in Roles, Rights, and Range of Practice
Thetis Group and Joan Roberts
A history of physician efforts to dominate the healthcare system.
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly: An Overview
Part I. “Exposing the Meretricious Lies”: Early Women Healers and Nurses and the Mythology of Medicine’s “Natural” Supremacy over Healing
- 1. “The Mere Trivia of History”? The Legacy of Early Women Healers and Physicians’ Efforts to Exclude or Control Them
- 2. “She Hath Done What She Could”: Reforming Nursing as Physicians Tighten the Medical Monopoly in Great Britain, 1800s to the early 1900s
- 3. The Search for American Nursing Origins: Differing Approaches to the History of Nursing and the Medical Monopoly in the United States, 1800s to the early 1900s
Part II. The Purposeful Move toward Dominance: Subordinating Nurses and Achieving a Medical Monopoly
- 4. “For Their Own Good”: Physicians Manipulating, Trivializing, and Coercing Nurses, Later 1800s to the 1920s
- 5. “The Exclusive Guardians of All Matters of Health”: The Consolidation of Medical Monopoly in the 1920s and 1930s
- 6. A Growing Unease: Nurse-Physician Interprofessional Relations from the 1940s to the 1960s
- 7. Reconciling Practice with Protest and Confrontation with Cooperation: Nurse-Physician Relations in the 1970s
Part III. An Outdated, Burdensome Model of Monopolistic Control: Entering the Twenty-First Century with a Fractured Health-Care System and Continuing Medical Opposition to Nurses’ Autonomy
- 8. Who Needs the Autonomous Professional Nurse?: Gender Stereotypes Remain Central to Nurse-Physician Relations
- 9. Challenges to the Medical Monopoly: Nurses’ Gains in Direct Payment, Hospital Privileges, Prescriptive Authority, and Expanded Practice Laws
- 10. The Results of the Medical Monopoly: “A Regulatory and Policy-Making Quagmire”
References Index