Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession (eBook)

A gendered opportunity

Jane Brooks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
272 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6741-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Nursing History and Humanities
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: anti-refugee • Antisemitism • British nursing • feminised profession • gendered work • Holocaust • Jewish refugees • Migrant worker • Second World War • Women’s war work
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-6741-7 / 1526167417
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-6741-5 / 9781526167415