Nursing History and Humanities – serie
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26 produkter
Who Cared for the Carers?
A History of the Occupational Health of Nurses, 1880–1948
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process it reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the lives of …
One Hundred Years of Wartime Nursing Practices, 1854–1953
Av Jane Brooks, Christine E. Hallett
Inbunden, 2015
1156 kr
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This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of …
Colonial Caring
A History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Nursing
Inbunden, 2015
1224 kr
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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 …
Negotiating Nursing
British Army Sisters and Soldiers in the Second World War
Av Jane Brooks
Inbunden, 2018
1263 kr
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Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely …
Nurse Writers of the Great War
E-bok, 2017
56 kr
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The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, …
Colonial Caring
A History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Nursing
E-bok, 2018
57 kr
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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 …
Ellen N. La Motte
Nurse, Writer, Activist
Av Lea Williams
Inbunden, 2019
1302 kr
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Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It integrates original unexamined sources such as diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and publishing contracts …
Ellen N. La Motte
Nurse, Writer, Activist
Av Lea Williams
E-bok, 2019
1287 kr
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Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It integrates original unexamined sources such as diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and publishing contracts …
Ellen N. La Motte
Nurse, Writer, Activist
Av Lea Williams
E-bok, 2019
1250 kr
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Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It integrates original unexamined sources such as diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and publishing contracts …
African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe
Inbunden, 2020
1236 kr
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Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe’s hospitals in the twentieth–century. It argues that in their subordinate positions, and within their various capacities – nursing assistants, nursing …
African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe
E-bok, 2020
1249 kr
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Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe’s hospitals in the twentieth–century. It argues that in their subordinate positions, and within their various capacities – nursing assistants, nursing …
African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe
E-bok, 2020
1249 kr
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Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe’s hospitals in the twentieth–century. It argues that in their subordinate positions, and within their various capacities – nursing assistants, nursing …
Beyond Nightingale
Nursing on the Crimean War Battlefields
Inbunden, 2019
1337 kr
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Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies. The story is told within the broader context of the different political, social and economic …
Beyond Nightingale
Nursing on the Crimean War Battlefields
E-bok, 2019
368 kr
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Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies. The story is told within the broader context of the different political, social and economic …
Beyond Nightingale
Nursing on the Crimean War Battlefields
E-bok, 2019
368 kr
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Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies. The story is told within the broader context of the different political, social and economic …
Beyond Nightingale
Nursing on the Crimean War Battlefields
Häftad, 2021
456 kr
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Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies. The story is told within the broader context of the different political, social and economic …
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession
A Gendered Opportunity
Av Jane Brooks
Inbunden, 2024
1216 kr
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This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic …
Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820
Inbunden, 2025
1263 kr
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This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if …
Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession
A gendered opportunity
Av Jane Brooks
Häftad, 2026
374 kr
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This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic …
Nurse Writers of the Great War
Inbunden, 2016
1263 kr
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The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, …
'Curing queers'
Mental nurses and their patients, 1935–74
Häftad, 2016
309 kr
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Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality …
Nurse Writers of the Great War
E-bok, 2016
57 kr
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The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, …
Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820
Häftad, 2027
339 kr
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This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if …
One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854–1953
Av Jane Brooks, Christine E. Hallett
Häftad, 2015
351 kr
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This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of …
Mental Health Nursing
The Working Lives of Paid Carers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2015
1224 kr
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This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new research questions by drawing together a concern with exploring the class, gender, skills and working conditions of practitioners with an assessment of the …
Histories of Nursing Practice
Av Gerard Fealy, Christine E. Hallett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1224 kr
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How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system? This book provides some important answers to this question. It traces the history and development of nursing practice in Europe and North America, exploring two broad categories of nursing work: the …
