Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the third edition -- 1 Social change and attitudes to care -- 2 Change and care before the Reformation -- 3 The sixteenth-century transition -- 4 New approaches to care -- 5 The growth of hospitals in eighteenth-century England -- 6 The deserving and the undeserving poor -- 7 Those of unsound mind -- 8 Local government and sanitary reform -- 9 The influence of Florence Nightingale -- 10 Nursing reforms extended -- 11 Towards a health service -- 12 Registration and the growth of nursing organisations -- 13 Social change and nursing in the inter-war years -- 14 The legacy of the Second World War -- 15 The National Health Service -- 16 Adapting nursing to new demands -- 17 New demands on nursing -- 18 Who will nurse the patients of tomorrow? -- 19 New problems for old in the community -- 20 Mental health nursing-origins and developments -- 21 Health at work -- 22 Nurses as managers -- 23 Nursing education-'Reports are not self-executive' -- 24 Nursing research -- 25 The road to reorganisation -- 26 Nursing, economic change and industrial relations -- 27 The health problems of the world -- 28 International and inter-regional organisations -- Epilogue -- Index.