By Patricia D'Antonio, Julie A. Fairman, Jean C. Whelan

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2014 winner of the yankee organization for the historical past of Nursing’s Mary M. Roberts Award for Exemplary old learn and Writing!

The Routledge guide at the international historical past of Nursing brings jointly major students and scholarship to catch the state-of-the-art and technological know-how of nursing heritage, as a new release of researchers flip to the historical past of nursing with new paradigms and methodological tools.

Inviting readers to think about new understandings of the old paintings and price of nursing in a bigger international context, this ground-breaking quantity illuminates how examine into the historical past of nursing strikes us clear of a reductionist specialize in illnesses and coverings and in the direction of extra inclusive rules in regards to the reports of health problems on participants, households, groups, voluntary businesses, and states on the bedside and around the globe. a longer creation via the editors presents an summary and analyzes the most important topics concerned about the transmission of rules concerning the care of the ailing. equipped into 4 elements, and addressing nursing world wide, it covers:

  • New instructions within the background of nursing;
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  • The politics of nursing wisdom;
  • Nursing and its dating to social perform.

Exploring issues of individuals, perform, politics and areas, this innovative quantity brings jointly the simplest of nursing historical past scholarship, and is a crucial reference for all researchers within the box, and can also be appropriate to these learning on nursing historical past and health and wellbeing coverage courses.

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Often, they serve as romantic figures who grace the silver screen in billowing white uniforms mysteriously unsullied by work or war, while they selflessly soothe and comfort tragically wounded young men with whom they frequently fall in love. Others receive the audience’s admiration as they stoically withstand their fears and the dangers of war to prove their worth as women, as nurses, and as representatives of their country. The 1943 production So Proudly We Hail, for example, undermined the tragic experiences of nurses imprisoned by the Japanese—nurses who were at the time of the film’s release still living in prison camps in the Philippines—by framing the story as a wartime romance.

28 Carol C. Chin, “Beneficent Imperialists: American Women Missionaries in China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 27, no. 3 (2003): 327–352. 29 “Introduction,” in Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960, ed. Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Connie A. Shemo (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 2. S. Disease Eradication in Cuba as Colonial Public Health,” in Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State, ed.

44 Nurses’ participation in wartime policies perhaps most obviously conflicts with medical aims in the history of nurses’ involvement in Nazi extermination policies. In Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke’s disturbing but insightful history of psychiatric nurses’ efforts to reconcile their professional aims with government sterilization efforts, she reveals the process by which nurses altered their perception of patients to rationalize their increasingly brutal and dehumanizing treatment. As nurses divorced their intent from the consequences of their actions, they relied on their place at the bottom of the medical hierarchy to acquiesce their consciences to the results of their work.

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