| Abstrakt: |
The article examines the influence of Catholic and Protestant parish nursing on the development of medical care and nursing in the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th centuries. The relationship between Christian religious servitude and the provision of medical care by nuns in the Netherlands is analyzed, the history of the Protestant Society of Nursing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is examined, and the history of the professionalization and modernization of Dutch nursing is described. Centralization and government control of the education of Dutch nursing personnel is also examined along with religious and social elements of struggles for power in hospital administration. |
