Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Ex-library. Missing title page; circa 1931. Original green cloth binding with faded gilt lettering on spine. Spine is slightly damaged from library tape, and ends are frayed. Corners are exposed. Contains stamps of the Mary Fletcher Hospital Training School Library, ownership information in ink on front pastedown, and checkout card pocket on rear pastedown. Also contains the small pasted stamp of E. F. Mahady Co., Medical Books, Boston. Front hinge is quite weak. Pages are occasionally spotted and contain a few marginal notations. This volume addresses the nature of ethics and how it should be applied by the nurse, or nursing school. There is a discussion of the current age in comparison with historical periods, and how the profession of nursing is changing. A list of nurses doing notable things follows this chapter, and includes Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lilian Wald, Isabel Hampton Robb, Annie Goodrich, Lavinia Dock, and others. The book also discusses ethics between the patient and the nurse, in observation of the patient, relating to gossip and telling the truth, in regards to discipline, the opposite sex, fees and gifts, and more. From the nursing history collection of Sarah Abrams. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 281 pages, octavo.
Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Third Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; HC with remnants of dust jacket. 3rd printing. HC in original green cloth with title lettering brightly in gilt to spine. Binding a little shaken in the spine; mild shelf rub to cloth at extremities. Some minimal pencil marginalia and underlining scattered to a few pages; light foxing to endpages. Dust jacket spine, rear panel and flap are laid in at rear. Sound decent copy with partial dust jacket. Book is good plus with a poor jacket.