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Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War
Contributor(s): Hallett, Christine (Author)
ISBN: 0719085969     ISBN-13: 9780719085963
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - World War I
- History | Social History
- History | Modern - 20th Century
Dewey: 940.475
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.72 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of 'containing
trauma'. Broad in its scope and detailed in its research, the book analyses the work of nurses from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the United States of America. It draws on highly personal writings: letters and diaries drawn from archives and libraries throughout the
world. This wide-ranging book explores a range of treatment scenarios, from the Western and Eastern Fronts to the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and India. It considers both the efforts of nurses to provide physical, emotional and moral containment to their patients, and the work they did to
maintain their own physical and emotional integrity.