Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity

There is only a relatively small portion of this book which is about romances:

While it has become unpopular to speculate about the activity of reading without empirical and ethnographic work, I intend to contemplate the appeal of doctor/nurse romances despite the death of empirical material available on the subject. First of all, the sample; it consists of more than forty Mills & Boon romances published between 1957 and 1989, clearly a very small number in relation to the overall numbers produced (some four a month since the early 1960s). Out of these, I have concentrated on those featuring hospital nurses at the centre of the narrative, with an emphasis on books about nurse training. (68-69)