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(The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work.) By Suzanne Gordon. 489 pp. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2005. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-3976-0.

As with much that has been written about the nursing profession, this book comes during one of the cycles of a national shortage of registered nurses. It is probably not coincidental that the shortages occur at the same time people become interested in understanding more about the nursing profession. Nursing against the Odds makes abundantly clear some of the important problems of the work and work environment of registered nurses and other nursing staff in acute care hospitals.

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