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Record Nr.

UNINA9910556095803321

Autore

Grant Susan <1982->

Titolo

Soviet Nightingales : Care under Communism / / Susan Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2022

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-5017-6260-5

1-5017-6261-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

362.10947

Soggetti

Social medicine

Nursing ethics

Nurses - Social conditions

Nurses

Medical ethics

Medical ethics - Soviet Union

Nursing ethics - Soviet Union

Nurses - Soviet Union - Social conditions

Nurses - Soviet Union - History

Social medicine - Soviet Union

History

Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--