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Sayre‐Adams, Jean; Wright, Steve

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“…59 Between 1997 and 1999, the forum increased its membership by 4,000 nurses each year 60 and by 2000, there were 11,424 members, when it was believed to have the largest membership of all RCN forums. 61 Its chairman by this time was massage therapist Angela Avis and due recognition of her work came with the award of MBE in 2001 for services towards integrating complementary therapies into mainstream nursing and health care.…”

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'You cannot get enough of them!’ The rise (and fall) of complementary therapies in British nursing practice in the 1980s and 1990s

Gowing

Gale

2018

J Historical Sociology

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This paper examines the emerging use of complementary therapies in British nursing practice at the end of the twentieth century. Many nurses turned to complementary therapies as a means to provide a closer therapeutic relationship with their patients and this paper will establish how nurses were informed and empowered. The paper places complementary practices in the context of nursing developments in the closing decades of the twentieth century and concludes that the extent of the supporting networks that encouraged nurses to incorporate these therapies into their work was more significant than has been previously recognised and exemplifies a distinct period in the history of modern nursing.

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