Masakure African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3548-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Nursing History and Humanities

Covering the colonial and post-colonial periods, African nurses and everyday work puts at the centre of historical enquiry the experiences of African nurses who laboured day and night in Zimbabwe’s hospitals, healing the sick and nursing the infirm.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Masakure, Clement

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: African nurses in Zimbabwe’s hospitals
2 The experiences of the pioneer generation of nurses, c. 1900–49
3 ‘Our kitchen days are over … We can no longer continue the tradition of our predecessors': Taking up nursing as a career option, c. 1950 to the 1960s
4 The Africanisation of Rhodesia’s clinical spaces and an anatomy of everyday work in hospitals, 1960–70
5 Nursing a nation at war: Nurses’ experiences during the 1970s
6 The trajectories of nursing in independent Zimbabwe, 1980–96
7 Conclusion: Nurses and nursing in twentieth-century Zimbabwe
Appendix 1: Colonial and post-colonial names
Appendix 2: Explanations and translations
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clement Masakure is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State