Taking care: the story of nursing and its power to change our world

Origins: to nurse is to be human: reclaiming a history --

Hierarchy: the making of a big lie: essentially female, always subordinate --

Identity: who is a nurse? the wartime struggle for the right to care --

Community: libraries, church basements, and tenement houses: nursing at work in everyday lives --

Endings: nursing beyond cures: the radical promise of hospice --

Autonomy: the fight for choices: a complicated story of nurses, birth control, and abortion --

Environment: seeing the future: nursing in a swiftly changing climate --

Addiction: staying alive: how radical acceptance can transform substance use care --

Collective: no angels: nursing as labor --

Power: taking charge: what we all gain when good nurses govern