Originally published between 1957 and 1988 the volumes in this collection were published at the time when the nursing profession was reviewing its education system and they give a basic grounding in community medicine and epidemiology for district, community psychiatric and other nurses and health visitors; highlight the role of professional associations in nursing research development; consider topics and concepts that give the specialism of Occupational Nursing its unique character; focus on the philosophy of individualised patient care; examine the beginnings of the nursing profession in its present form; explain the relevance of sociology to contemporary nursing; locate interpersonal skills in nursing in both social psychological and nursing contexts and present an analytical explanation of curriculum design, development and evaluation as applied to nursing.

Rikke Andreassen is Professor of Media and Culture in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. She is the author of Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays and Mediated Kinship: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Donor Families.

Catrin Lundström is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden. She is the author of White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration.

Suvi Keskinen is Professor of Ethnic Relations at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Mobilising the Racialised ‘Others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics, and the co-editor of Complying with Colonialism: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region and Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity.

Shirley Anne Tate is Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, Canada and Honorary Professor, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She is the author of From Post-Intersectionality to Black Decolonial Feminism: Black Skin Affections; Decolonizing Sambo:Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity; The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame: Discourse, Iconicity and Resistance; Black Women’s Bodies and the Nation: Race, Gender and Culture; and Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters.