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

• Superior document: Nursing History and Humanities
• TeilnehmendeR: Hawkins, Sue, 1956-; Sweet, Helen M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2018.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Nursing history and humanities.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) :; illustrations, 1 map, portraits; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: First published: 2015.

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. This book 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.

Table of Contents

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.