Physical description

Stapled booklet, white cover with blue print. Above the title and author's name are the words 'Royal College of Nursing Australia' and the logo of the college.Below the author's name '1991 is printed

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At top right of the front cover the previous catalogue number is handwritten [blue ink], at bottom left there are marks where two stickers have been removed. On title page at top right their is an oval stamp from the Alfred Health Sciences Library. At top left of this page 'BRN 22923' is handwritten.

Summary

This oration looks at the belief that emotion corrupts the caring heart of womanhood. That an educated woman is less caring than her uneducated couterpart. And, byextension that an educated nurse will be a cold uncaring nurse . The booklet also include a list of past speakers and titles of orations