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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

From the height of colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, through to the aftermath of the Second World War, nurses have been at the heart of colonial projects. They were ideally placed to insinuate the 'improving' culture of their employers into the local communities they served, and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hawkins, Sue, 1956- (Editor ), Sweet, Helen M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Contextualising colonial and post-colonial nursing / Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins
  • Lady amateurs and gentleman professionals : emergency nursing in the Indian Mutiny / Sam Goodman
  • Imperial sisters in Hong Kong : disease, conflict and nursing in the British Empire, 1880-1914 / Angharad Fletcher
  • The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Charlotte Dale
  • 'They do what you wish; they like you; you the good nurse!' : colonialism and native health nursing in New Zealand, 1900-40 / Linda Bryder
  • Training the 'natives' as nurses in Australia : so what went wrong? / Odette Best
  • Working toward health, Christianity and democracy : American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900-30 / Winifred Connerton
  • The early years of nursing in the Dutch East Indies 1895-1920 / Liesbeth Hesselink
  • A sample of Italian fascist colonialism : nursing and medical records in the Imperial War in Ethiopia (1935-36) / Anna La Torre, Giancarlo Celeri Bellotti and Cecilia Sironi
  • Changes in nuring and missions in post-colonial Nigeria / Barbra Mann Wall
  • Two China 'gadabouts' : guerrilla nursing with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1946-48 / Susan Armstrong-Reid
  • Afterword / Rima D. Apple.