One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854–1953

One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854–1953
ISBN-10
1526101521
ISBN-13
9781526101525
Category
Medical
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2015-11-01
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Jane Brooks, Christine Hallett

Description

This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of multiple nursing roles during the wars, it considers the responsiveness of nursing work, as crisis scenarios gave rise to improvisation and the – sometimes quite dramatic – breaking of practice boundaries. The originality of the text lies not only in the breadth of wartime practices considered, but also the international scope of both the contributors and the nurses they consider. It will therefore appeal to academics and students in the history of nursing and war, nursing work and the history of medicine and war from across the globe.

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