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Title Colonial caring : a history of colonial and post-colonial nursing / edited by Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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Series Nursing history and humanities
Nursing history and humanities.
Summary 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 travelled in droves to far-flung parts of the globe to serve their country. Issues of gender, class and race permeate this book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nursed are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources. Many of the chapters are based on first-hand accounts of nurses and reveal that not all were motivated by patriotic vigour or altruism, but went out in search of adventure. The book will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender and ethnicity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Title from book home page (EBL, viewed August 1, 2016).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Access Open Access EbpS
Language English.
Subject Public health nursing -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History.
Nursing -- History.
Nursing -- Social aspects.
Medicine -- History.
1800s
1900s
History of Medicine
History of Nursing
Colonialism
Soins infirmiers en santé publique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire.
Soins infirmiers -- Aspect social.
Médecine -- Histoire.
history of medicine.
History of medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
MEDICAL -- History.
Medicine
Nursing
Nursing -- Social aspects
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
Added Author Sweet, Helen M., editor.
Hawkins, Sue, 1956- editor.
Added Title History of colonial and post-colonial nursing
Other Form: Print version: Colonial caring. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 9780719099700 (DLC) 2015452833 (OCoLC)925311753
ISBN 9781784996963 (electronic bk.)
1784996963 (electronic bk.)
9780719099700 (electronic bk.)
0719099706 (electronic bk.)
9781526129369 (electronic bk.)
1526129361 (electronic bk.)
1784996343
9781784996345
1526104393
9781526104397
Standard No. AU@ 000056997121
CHNEW 001035111
CHVBK 55623572X
DEBBG BV044026879
GBVCP 896610470
UKMGB 018363848

 
    
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