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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Table of Contents:
  • War and revolution
  • Creating order out of chaos
  • Black star, red star: finding the Soviet way
  • Proletarian paradise: medical workers rise up
  • Stalinist care: cadres decide everything
  • Fortresses of sanitary defense: preparing for war
  • A decade of war and reconstruction
  • Caring for the mind
  • Communist morality, activism, and ethics.