Colonial caring: A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sweet, Helen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The history of nursing presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism, as nurses were often a key conduit between coloniser and colonised. Many colonising powers used nurses as a means of insinuating their own cultures into the lives of indigenous people, yet despite the valuable insights such an approach reveals, colonial history has never before been approached from this particular direction. Colonial caring brings together a collection of essays from an international group of historians who examine the relationship between colonialism, nursing and nurses. Gender, class and race permeate the book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nurse 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, producing a view of the colonial process from the ground, or use multiple sources to piece together a story which was never recorded in its entirety in official records. It offers insight into the colonial process as conducted by British, Dutch, American and Italian governments; and how nursing not only affected colonial societies but was itself changed by its experiences. This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, be they gender, cultural or social historians, and of course to historians of nursing and colonialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996345
• Artikelnr.: 44041069

Autorenporträt

Helen Sweet is a Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford Sue Hawkins is a Senior Lecturer in History at Kingston University London

Inhaltsangabe

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