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Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
Dock was a contributing editor to the American Journal of Nursing and authored several books, including a four-volume history of nursing (with M. Adelaide Nutting as co-author) and Materia Medica for Nurses, the nurse's standard manual of drugs for many years. [2] In her later life, she also campaigned for social reform, particularly women's ...
Macmillan lead nurses are senior nurse managers, helping shape the future of cancer and palliative care services in their area [2]. As of June 2013, there were 3,942 Macmillan nurse posts across the UK, both in hospitals and in the community [3]. Macmillan nurses must have five years’ experience, with two years of more spent in cancer or ...
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The charity was founded 1911 [4] as the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, by Douglas Macmillan following the death of his father from the disease. In 1924, the name was changed to the National Society for Cancer Relief, which it retained until 1989 when it was changed to Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund, later changed again to Macmillan Cancer Relief.
Mary Anne "Mamie" Cadden (27 October 1891 – 20 April 1959) was an American-born Irish midwife, backstreet abortionist, and convicted murderer.She was born 27 October 1891 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Irish parents Patrick and Mary Cadden.
Upon stepping down as director, MacMillan was appointed the Endowed David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies and continued her research into incidence, control, and prevention of violence against women and children. In 2010, MacMillan was appointed director of the newly established Centre for Research Development in Gender, Mental Health ...
Agnes Jones was born on 10 November 1832 in Cambridge into a wealthy family with both military and evangelical religious connections. Her uncle was Sir John Lawrence, later Lord Lawrence who went on to become Governor General of India.