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Author Grant, Susan, 1982- author.

Title Soviet nightingales : care under communism / Susan Grant.

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents War and revolution -- Creating order out of chaos -- Black star, red star: finding the Soviet way -- Proletarian paradise: medical workers rise up -- Stalinist care: cadres decide everything -- Fortresses of sanitary defense: preparing for war -- A decade of war and reconstruction -- Caring for the mind -- Communist morality, activism, and ethics.
Summary "Examines the role nurses and orderlies played in psychiatric care post-WWII and analyzes relationships and power dynamics between medical workers. Engages with key issues affecting medical workers and broader social and political events, including the role of nurses as moral ambassadors in the 1960s and the importance of ethics and deontology in nursing in the 1970s and 1980s."-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Subject Social medicine -- Soviet Union.
Nurses -- Soviet Union -- History.
Nurses -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Nursing ethics -- Soviet Union.
Medical ethics -- Soviet Union.
Infirmières -- URSS -- Histoire.
Infirmières -- URSS -- Conditions sociales.
Infirmières -- Déontologie -- URSS.
Éthique médicale -- URSS.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Medical ethics
Nurses
Nurses -- Social conditions
Nursing ethics
Social medicine
Soviet Union
Indexed Term medical workers in the USSR, nursing in the nineteenth century, underfunding in healthcare, soviet nurses, 1920 medical workers, sisters of mercy nurses, Bolsheviks and health care.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
Other Form: Print version: Grant, Susan, 1982- Soviet nightingales Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2022] 9781501763564 (DLC) 2021045769
ISBN 9781501762611 (epub)
1501762613
9781501762604 (pdf)
1501762605
9781501763564 (hardcover)
9781501762598 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000069924294

 
    
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