Although the international context was of key importance for nursing education in inter-war Czechoslovakia, the topic has been solely studied by American scholars so far; the Czech historiography of nursing and medicine has not paid due attention to it until now. The study focuses on how American nurses got involved in the improvement of nursing conditions, what problems the implementation of their approaches met with, efforts to interconnect public health nursing with hospital nursing had failed for a long time and why the aim to establish new nursing schools was difficult to implement. The retrospective analysis of these questions is based on primary (Czechoslovak and U. S. nursing periodicals, Czechoslovak archival documents) and serves as a basis for comparison with published archival material U. S. provenance. The author regards the introduction of new approaches in nursing as a part of the process of medicalization. She argues that the exercise of biopower in relation to nursing education provoked a number of conflicts conditioned by gender stereotypes, adjusted political and legal framework, cultural customs and mentality.
nursing care; education; Anglo-Saxon model; Czechoslovakia; 1918–1938
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