Colonial caring : : a history of colonial and post-colonial nursing / / edited by Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins.
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, ye...
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| Superior document: | Nursing History and Humanities |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2018. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nursing history and humanities.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) :; illustrations, 1 map, portraits; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | First published: 2015. |
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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.