Containing Trauma - Nursing Work in the First World War

Explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. This book argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of 'containing trauma'.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Hallett, Christine E. Hallett
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780719079580
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7958-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cultural History of Modern War; Cultural History of Modern War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing