Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession : a gendered opportunity / Jane Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Jane (Lecturer in nursing), author.

Series:

Nursing history and humanities.

Nursing history and humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--Great Britain--History.

Nursing.

Jewish refugees--Great Britain.

Jewish refugees.

Women nurses--Great Britain--History.

Women nurses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Jane Brooks is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester.

Summary:

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. As the country faced inevitable war, the Government and the profession’s elite courted refugees as an antidote to the shortages, but many hospitals refused to employ Continental Jews.The book explores the changes in the refugees’ status and lives from the war years to the foundation of the National Health Service and to the latter decades of the twentieth century. It places the refugees at the forefront of manoeuvres in nursing practice, education and research at a time of social upheaval and alterations in the position of women.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Escape

2 The nursing world

3 War nurse

4 From the post-war world to a nursing legacy

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-257) and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed November 26, 2024.

ISBN:

1-5261-6743-3

OCLC:

1453645554