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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458688803321

Autore

Healey Madelaine

Titolo

Indian sisters : a history of nursing and the state, 1907-2007 / / Madelaine Healey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-315-73414-1

1-317-56009-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

South Asian History and Culture

Disciplina

610.73

Soggetti

Nursing - India - History

Nurses - India - History

Indian nurses - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Nurse Abroad; 1. The Institution of Modern Nursing in Indian Society; Upward Mobility; 2. Lighting India's Lamp: Nursing Leadership and the Colonial State, 1905-47; An Illustrious Career; 3. 'Seeds That May Have Been Planted May Take Root': International Aid Nurses and Projects of Professionalism, 1947-65; Nursing the Community; 4. From Green Park to Bollywood: The Development of Nursing Organisation, 1947-2006; A Parsi Nurse in UP

5. The Indian State and the Disappearing NurseThe Dean; 6. 'Nurses Anytime': Emigration and the Status Question; Conclusion: The Four Feet upon which a Cure must Rest; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both rural and urban health care. Charting the history of the development of nursing in India over 100 years, Indian Sisters



examines the reasons why nurses have so consistently been sidelined and excluded from health care governance and policymaking.The book challenges the routine suggestion that nursing's