Margarete Sandelowski

Author argues that technology (the tools nurses use) has helped shape and intensify persistent dilemmas in nursing and that it has both advanced and impeded the development of the profession. Nurses have both embraced and rejected technology in their pursuit of professional autonomy. The author looks closely at the interplay between technology and gender - how certain medical tools (the X-Ray for instance) required personnel with certain traits - detail oriented, patient - etc. that many automatically equated with women.… (més)