Colonial Caring : A History of Colonial and Post-colonial Nursing
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Colonial Caring : A History of Colonial and Post-colonial Nursing

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Colonial Caring : A History of Colonial and Post-colonial Nursing

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Colonial Caring : A History of Colonial and Post-colonial Nursing by Sue Hawkins, Helen Sweet in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Medical Theory, Practice & Reference. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front matter
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures
  4. Contributors
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: contextualising colonial and post-colonial nursing
  7. Lady amateurs and gentleman professionals: emergency nursing in the Indian Mutiny
  8. Imperial sisters in Hong Kong: disease, conflict and nursing in the British Empire, 1880–1914
  9. The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902
  10. ‘They do what you wish; they like you; you the good nurse!’: colonialism and Native Health nursing in New Zealand, 1900–40
  11. Training the ‘natives’ as nurses in Australia: so what went wrong?
  12. Working towards health, Christianity and democracy: American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900–30
  13. The early years of nursing in the Dutch East Indies, 1895–1920
  14. A sample of Italian Fascist colonialism: nursing and medical records in the Imperial War in Ethiopia (1935–36)
  15. Changes in nursing and mission in post-colonial Nigeria
  16. Two China ‘gadabouts’: guerrilla nursing with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1946–48
  17. Afterword
  18. Select bibliography
  19. Index