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Informationen zum Autor Helen Sweet is a Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford Sue Hawkins is a Senior Lecturer in History at Kingston University London Klappentext The history of nursing presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism. Nurses were often a key conduit between coloniser and colonised, and many powers used nurses as a means of insinuating their own cultures into the lives of indigenous people. However, despite the valuable insights such an approach reveals, colonial history has never before been approached from this particular direction. Colonial caring brings together essays from an international group of historians who examine the relationship between colonialism, nursing and nurses. Gender, class and race permeate the 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, producing a view of the colonial process from the ground, or use multiple sources to piece together a story which was never recorded in its entirety in official records. The book offers insight into the colonial process as conducted by British, Dutch, American and Italian governments; and how nursing not only affected colonial societies but was itself changed by its experiences. Colonial caring will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender, ethnicity and nursing. Zusammenfassung The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century! and touches on Europe! Australia! the Caribbean and Africa -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Contextualising colonial and post-colonial nursing - Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins1. 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 Fletcher3. The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 - Charlotte Dale4. Native health nurses: 'they do what you wish; they like you; you the good nurse!' - Linda Bryder5. Training 'the natives' as nurses - so what went wrong? An Australian context - Odette Best6. 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 Hesselink8. 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 Sironi9. The changing face of medical missions in Nigeria, 1937-70 - Barbra Mann-Wall10. Two China gadabouts: guerrilla nursing with the Friends' Ambulance Unit, 1946-8 - Susan Armstrong ReidAfterword - Rima AppleIndex...
