One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854-1953 / edited by Jane Brooks and Christine E. Hallett.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 306 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Availability

Available Online

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Editor
Series
Nursing history and humanities [More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
In English.
ISBN
  • 9781526101532 (electronic bk.)
  • 152610153X (electronic bk.)
Doi
  • 10.7765/9781526101532
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