Colonial caring (eBook, ePUB)

A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing
Redaktion: Sweet, Helen; Hawkins, Sue

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAPA Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526100016
• Artikelnr.: 57471779

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