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Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession
A gendered opportunity
By Jane Brooks
This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6742-2
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£85.00
Buy NowBeyond Nightingale
Nursing on the Crimean War battlefields
By Carol Helmstadter
Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6048-5
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Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820
By Alannah Tomkins
This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7852-7
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£85.00
Pre-OrderAfrican nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe
By Clement Masakure
Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe's hospitals in the twentieth-century. It argues that in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3547-6
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£85.00
Buy NowEllen N. La Motte
Nurse, writer, activist
By Lea Williams
Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2951-2
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£85.00
Buy Now'Curing queers'
Mental nurses and their patients, 1935-74
By Tommy Dickinson
Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9358-0
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£19.99
Buy NowOne hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854-1953
Edited by Jane Brooks and Christine Hallett
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 ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9142-1
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£19.99
Buy NowNurse Writers of the Great War
By Christine Hallett
The First World War was the first 'total war'. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9252-1
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Hardcover
£85.00
Buy NowNegotiating nursing
British Army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War
By Jane Brooks
Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1906-3
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Hardcover
£85.00
Buy NowMental health nursing
The working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Edited by Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale
This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new research questions by drawing together a concern with ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9693-8
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£90.00
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