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History
Anna Greenwood
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R545
Discovery Miles 5 450
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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History has been a source of cultural fascination since ancient
times, however little attention has been paid to its potential as a
positive force for health and wellbeing, at least until now.
Presenting the benefits of historical engagement, and practical
tips for making the most of it, Anna Greenwood considers the power
this discipline has to spur better health outcomes. In history, she
argues, people can find solace in the stories of others who have
lived with health conditions similar to their own. It can help the
lonely meet new friends, provoke long forgotten memories, and
encourage people to exercise their brain, limbs, and heart. A
ground-breaking work for history buffs and healthcare providers
alike, this new instalment in the Arts for Health series by one of
the leading scholars in modern health history advocates for
history’s ability to deepen sympathies, broaden imaginations, and
create community beyond the customary restrictions of time and
geography.
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the
Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of
both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British
Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite
government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the
state, with the members of the African service collaborating,
formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental
groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service
of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be
found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The
authors present important case studies covering former British
colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria,
Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into
the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial
doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of
imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for
scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and
colonial administration. -- .
Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement Award
Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book
proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale's experiences
of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her writings and
pioneering work. From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and
Hampshire, she visited the poor sick in their cottages. As a young
woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman
of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean
War and advising the British population on the home front how to
create healthier, contagion-free homes. Later, she created
Nightingale Homes for nursing trainees and acted as mother-in-chief
to her extended family of nurses. These efforts, inspired by her
Christian faith and training in human care from religious houses,
led to major changes in professional nursing and public health, as
Nightingale strove for homely, compassionate care in Britain and
around the world. Shedid most of this work from her bed after
contracting the debilitating illness, brucellosis, in the Crimea,
turning her various private homes into offices and 'households of
faith'. In the year of the bicentenary of her birth, she remains as
relevant as ever, achieving an astonishing cultural afterlife.
Thirteen-year old Robin is in the hospital after another beating
from her mother. Yet she s happier than she s ever been because she
s making friends with Declan and the other children on the ward,
and because the kindly nurses are giving her the love she s always
craved from her mother. Robin helps Declan too, when they sneak out
of the hospital on a mysterious errand, and they meet Lee, another
abused girl. Then one morning, Robin is stunned to find herself
painfully alone again all her friends, and even the nurses, have
disappeared and strangers are in their place. Now desolate and
grieving, it s up to Robin, to discover what has happened to all
her friends. Robin s Auntie Val (who Robin s mother has kept out of
Robin s life) helps her and together they solve the mystery.
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