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Colonial Caring : A History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Nursing.

'The history of nursing presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism. Nurses were often a key conduit between coloniser and colonised, and many powers used nurses as a means of insinuating their own cultures into the lives of indigenous people. Howeve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hallett, Christine (Series edited by.), Sweet, Helen (Editor ), Hawkins, Sue (Editor ), Schultz, Jane (Series edited by.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Plymouth : Manchester University Press NBN International [distributor] Feb. 2018
Colección:Nursing History and Humanities Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Contextualising colonial and post-colonial nursing / Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins
  • 1. Lady amateurs and gentleman professionals: emergency nursing in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 / Sam Goodman
  • 2. Imperial sisters: disease, conflict and nursing in the British Empire, 1880-1914 / Angharad Fletcher
  • 3. The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 / Charlotte Dale
  • 4. Native health nurses: 'they do what you wish; they like you; you the good nurse!' / Linda Bryder
  • 5. Training 'the natives' as nurses
  • so what went wrong? An Australian context / Odette Best
  • 6. Working toward health, Christianity and democracy: American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico 1900-30 / Winifred Connerton
  • 7. Educating native female nurses in the Dutch East Indies in the early twentieth century / Liesbeth Hesselink
  • 8. A sample of Italian fascist colonialism: nursing and medical records in the Imperial War in Ethiopia, 1935-6 / Anna La Torre, Giancarlo Celeri Bellotti and Cecilia Sironi
  • 9. The changing face of medical missions in Nigeria, 1937-70 / Barbra Mann-Wall
  • 10. Two China gadabouts: guerrilla nursing with the Friends' Ambulance Unit, 1946-8 / Susan Armstrong Reid
  • Afterword / Rima Apple
  • Index.