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Soviet nightingales : care under communism /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, Susan, 1982- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Social medicine > Soviet Union.
Nurses > Soviet Union > History.
Nurses > Soviet Union > Social conditions.
Nursing ethics > Soviet Union.
Medical ethics > Soviet Union.
Infirmières > URSS > Histoire.
Infirmières > URSS > Conditions sociales.
Infirmières > Déontologie > URSS.
Éthique médicale > URSS.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Medical ethics.
Nurses.
Nurses > Social conditions.
Nursing ethics.
Social medicine.
Soviet Union.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"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."--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501762611
1501762613
9781501762604
1501762605