"We have worked while we played and played while we worked": discipline and disobedience at the Kingston General Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1923-1939.

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  • Author(s): Wishart JM;Wishart JM
  • Source:
    Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine [Can Bull Med Hist] 2004; Vol. 21 (2), pp. 327-49.
  • Publication Type:
    Historical Article; Journal Article
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: University of Toronto Press Country of Publication: Canada NLM ID: 101130981 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0823-2105 (Print) Linking ISSN: 08232105 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Can Bull Med Hist
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: 2016- : Toronto : University of Toronto Press
      Original Publication: [Waterloo, Ont.] : Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, c1987-
    • Subject Terms:
      Education, Nursing/*history ; Hospitals, Urban/*history ; Schools, Nursing/*history; Canada ; History, 20th Century
    • Abstract:
      Drawing on evidence found in nurses' journals, oral accounts, yearbooks and other cultural productions as well as in hospital records, this paper considers the experiences of apprentices in a hospital nursing training school in the interwar period. By combining elements of scientific management with an older paternalist ethos, hospital administrators sought to imprint student nurse "material" with standards of work and behaviour valued by the hospital institution and the community that supported it. Students, whose expectations for nursing school often conflicted with those of management, developed a culture of mutuality that provided them with valuable resources to subvert and/or ameliorate the effects of disciplinary technologies and to re-appropriate the spaces and discourses of nursing training.
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20041201 Date Completed: 20041216 Latest Revision: 20191109
    • Publication Date:
      20240829
    • Accession Number:
      10.3138/cbmh.21.2.327
    • Accession Number:
      15568265