Soviet Nightingales : Care under Communism /

"Examines the role nurses and orderlies played in psychiatric care post-WWII and analyzes relationships and power dynamics between medical workers. Engages with key issues affecting medical workers and broader social and political events, including the role of nurses as moral ambassadors in the...

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Main Author: Grant, Susan, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary:"Examines the role nurses and orderlies played in psychiatric care post-WWII and analyzes relationships and power dynamics between medical workers. Engages with key issues affecting medical workers and broader social and political events, including the role of nurses as moral ambassadors in the 1960s and the importance of ethics and deontology in nursing in the 1970s and 1980s."--
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9781501762611
Access:Open Access