Soviet Nightingales - Care under Communism (Paperback)

In Soviet Nightingales, Susan Grant tracks nursing care in the Soviet Union from its nineteenth-century origins in Russia through the end of the Soviet state. With the advent of the USSR, nurses were instrumental in helping to build the New Soviet Person and in constructing a socialist society. Disease and illness were rampant in the early 1920s after years of war, revolution, and famine. The demand for nurses was great, but how might these workers best serve the country's needs? By examining living and working conditions, nurse-patient relations, education, and attempts at international nursing cooperation, Grant recounts the history of the Bolshevik effort to define the "Soviet" nurse and organize a new system of socialist care for the masses. Although the Bolsheviks aimed to transform healthcare along socialist lines, they ultimately failed as the struggle to train skilled medical workers became entangled in politics. Soviet Nightingales draws on rich archival research from Russia, the United States, and Britain to describe how ideology reinvented the role of the nurse and shaped the profession.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Susan Grant
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-6259-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	1-5017-6259-1
Barcode:	9781501762598

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