LEADER 03570 am 22006133u 450 001 996552365903316 005 20230621135906.0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526147257 035 $a(CKB)4100000008710968 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26590 035 $a(DE-B1597)660623 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526147257 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008710968 100 $a20190721h20192018 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNegotiating nursing $eBritish Army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War /$fJane Brooks 210 $aManchester, UK$cManchester University Press$d2019 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (236 pages) $cillustrations (black and white); digital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aNursing history and humanities 300 $aFirst published in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5261-1908-0 311 $a1-5261-4725-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aNegotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about their presence on the frontline. The book maps the developments in nurses? work as the Q.A.s created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established nurses? position as the expert at the bedside. Using a range of personal testimony the book demonstrates how the exigencies of war demanded nurses alter the methods of nursing practice and the professional boundaries in which they had traditionally worked, in order to care for their soldier-patients in the challenging environments of a war zone. Although they may have transformed practice, their position in war was highly gendered and it was gender in the post-war era that prevented their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state, as the women of Britain were returned to the home and hearth. The aftermath of war may therefore have augured professional disappointment for some nursing sisters, yet their contribution to nursing knowledge and practice was, and remains, significant. 410 0$aNursing history and humanities. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMedical care$zGreat Britain 606 $aMilitary nursing$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNurses$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xWomen$zGreat Britain 610 $aNursing work 610 $aWomen?s war work 610 $aSecond World War 610 $aGender boundaries 610 $aProfessional boundaries 610 $aWomen?s space 610 $aNurses? presence 610 $aPersonal testimon 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMedical care 615 0$aMilitary nursing$xHistory 615 0$aNurses$xHistory 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xWomen 676 $a940.547641 700 $aBrooks$b Jane$c(Lecturer in nursing),$0944506 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552365903316 996 $aNegotiating nursing$92132115 997 $aUNISA