TY  - BOOK
AU  - Healey,Madelaine
TI  - Indian Sisters: A History of Nursing and the State, 1907-2007
T2  - South Asian History and Culture
SN  - 9781317560098
AV  - RT5 .I535 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Hoboken
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - History of nursing
KW  - Nurses
KW  - Nursing
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Indian nurses
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 s
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