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Indian Sisters - A History of Nursing and the State, 1907-2007 (Hardcover, New)
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Indian Sisters - A History of Nursing and the State, 1907-2007 (Hardcover, New)
Series: South Asian History and Culture
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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
suggestion that nursing's poor status is mainly attributable to
socio-cultural factors, such as caste, limitations on female
mobility and social taboos. It argues instead that many of its
problems are due to an under-achieved relationship between a
patriarchal state on the one hand, and weak professional nursing
organisations shaped by their colonial roots on the other. It also
explores how the recent phenomenon of large-scale emigration of
nurses to the West (leading to better pay, working conditions and
career prospects) has transformed the profession, lifting its
status dramatically. At the same time, it raises questions about
the implications of emigration for the fate of health care system
in India. An important contribution to the growing academic genre
of nursing history, the book is essential reading for scholars and
students of health care, the history of medicine, gender and
women's studies, sociology, and migration studies. It will also be
useful to policymakers and health professionals.
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