Social change and attitude to care
Change and care before the reformation
The sixteenth-century transition
New approaches to care
The growth of hospitals in eighteenth-century England
The deserving and the undeserving poor
Those of unsound mind
Local government and sanitary reform
The influence of Florence Nightingale
Nursing reforms extended
Towards a health service
Registration and the growth of nursing organisations
Social change and nursing in the inter-war years
The legacy of the Second World War


The national health service
Adapting nursing to new demands
New demands on nursing
Who will nurse the patients of tomorrow?
New problems for old in the community
Mental health nursing-origins and developments / Peter Nolan
Health at work / Paul Lloyd, Mavis Gordon
Nurses as managers / June Clark
Nursing education-r̀eports are not self-executive' / Margaret Green
Nursing research / June Clark
The road to reorganisation
Monica E. Baly, June Clark
Nursing, economic change and industrial relations / Val Cowie


The health problems of the world / Muriel Skeet
International and inter-regional organisations / Shelagh Murphy.