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In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: ‘Containing Trauma’: First World War nurses’ personal writings
2. Containing physical trauma on the Western Front
3. Relief and restoration: rebuilding the physical self
4. Nursing in far-flung places
5. Emotional containment
6. Self-containment
7. Conclusion: First World War nurses as ‘containers of trauma’
References
Index

Containing Trauma Nursing Work in the First World

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 11/29/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719085963, 978-0719085963
      ISBN10: 0719085969

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Acknowledgements
      1. Introduction: ‘Containing Trauma’: First World War nurses’ personal writings
      2. Containing physical trauma on the Western Front
      3. Relief and restoration: rebuilding the physical self
      4. Nursing in far-flung places
      5. Emotional containment
      6. Self-containment
      7. Conclusion: First World War nurses as ‘containers of trauma’
      References
      Index

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