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Book SynopsisNursing Shifts in Sichuan is a testament to the resilience of educated women, exploring modern nursing as one of the most consequential additions to health care in early-twentieth-century China.
Trade Review“This is an important book and a riveting story.” -- Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto
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Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is truly hard to put down! This is an exciting read, albeit sometimes a sad one, written by an outstanding scholar of nursing, religion, and mission. Social history at its best.” -- Barbra Mann Wall, University of Virginia
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part 1: Before the PUMC Closure
1 China Calling (1914–1933)
2 Unsettling Nursing (1932–1940)
3 Shifting Missions (1936–1940)
4 The Bomb that Changed Everything (1940–1942)
Part 2: After the PUMC Closure
5 Starting over in West China (1943–1945)
6 Fighting the Foundation’s “Darling Child” (1943–1946)
7 “Our Triumphant Return” (1946–1949)
8 The Last Chapter (1949–1951)
Conclusion
Appendix 1 List of Nurses at the West China Mission
Appendix 2 PUMC Nursing Faculty to 1949
Appendix 3 List of All Interned Nurses in China
Appendix 4 PUMC Nursing Graduates to 1939
Notes; References; Index
