Colonial Caring: A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing
Colonial Caring: A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing
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Abstract
Colonial Caring covers over a century of colonial nursing by nurses from a wide range of countries including: Denmark, Britain, USA, Holland and Italy; with the colonised countries including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) and the Danish West Indies. It presents unique perspectives from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism including aspects of race, cultural difference and implications of warfare and politics upon nursing. Viewing nursing’s development under colonial and post-colonial rule reveals different faces of a profession that superficially may appear to be consistent and coherent, yet in reality is constantly reinventing itself. Considering such areas as transnational relationships, class, gender, race and politics, this book aims to present current work in progress within the field, to better understand the complex entanglements in nursing’s development as it was imagined and practised in local imperial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. Taking a chronologically-based structure, early chapters examine nursing in situations of conflict in the post-Crimean period from the Indian Rebellion to the Anglo-Boer War. Recruitment, professionalisation of nursing and of military nursing in particular, are therefore considered before moving deeper into the twentieth century reflecting upon later periods of colonialism in which religion and humanitarianism become more central. Drawing from a wide range of sources from official documents to diaries, memoirs and oral sources, and using a variety of methodologies including qualitative and quantitative approaches, the book represents ground-breaking work.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: contextualising colonial and post-colonial nursing
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1
Lady amateurs and gentleman professionals: emergency nursing in the Indian Mutiny
Sam Goodman
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Imperial sisters in Hong Kong: disease, conflict and nursing in the British Empire, 1880–1914
Angharad Fletcher
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The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–19021
Charlotte Dale
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‘They do what you wish; they like you; you the good nurse!’1: colonialism and Native Health nursing in New Zealand, 1900–40
Linda Bryder
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Training the ‘natives’ as nurses in Australia: so what went wrong?
Odette Best
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Working towards health, Christianity and democracy: American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900–301
Winifred C. Connerton
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The early years of nursing in the Dutch East Indies, 1895–1920
Liesbeth Hesselink
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A sample of Italian Fascist colonialism: nursing and medical records in the Imperial War in Ethiopia (1935–36)1
Anna La Torre and others
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Changes in nursing and mission in post-colonial Nigeria
Barbra Mann Wall
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Two China ‘gadabouts’: guerrilla nursing with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1946–48
Susan Armstrong-Reid
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Afterword
Rima D. Apple
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End Matter
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