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oapen-20.500.12657-622052024-03-27T14:14:47Z Soviet Nightingales Grant, Susan medical workers in the USSR, nursing in the nineteenth century, underfunding in healthcare, soviet nurses, 1920 medical workers, sisters of mercy nurses, Bolsheviks and health care thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regions thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQC Nursing In Soviet Nightingales, Susan Grant tracks nursing care in the Soviet Union from its nineteenth-century origins in Russia through the end of the Soviet state. With the advent of the USSR, nurses were instrumental in helping to build the New Soviet Person and in constructing a socialist society. Disease and illness were rampant in the early 1920s after years of war, revolution, and famine. The demand for nurses was great, but how might these workers best serve the country's needs? By examining living and working conditions, nurse-patient relations, education, and attempts at international nursing cooperation, Grant recounts the history of the Bolshevik effort to define the "Soviet" nurse and organize a new system of socialist care for the masses. Although the Bolsheviks aimed to transform healthcare along socialist lines, they ultimately failed as the struggle to train skilled medical workers became entangled in politics. Soviet Nightingales draws on rich archival research from Russia, the United States, and Britain to describe how ideology reinvented the role of the nurse and shaped the profession. 2023-03-29T15:52:14Z 2023-03-29T15:52:14Z 2022 book ONIX_20230329_9781501762604_179 9781501762604 9781501762598 9781501763564 9781501762611 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62205 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International 9781501762604.pdf 9781501762611.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763564/soviet-nightingales Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 346483d4-50d7-4654-937f-22227ddf82cd 9781501762604 9781501762598 9781501763564 9781501762611 Cornell University Press 336 Ithaca [...] Liverpool John Moores University LJMU open access
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In Soviet Nightingales, Susan Grant tracks nursing care in the Soviet Union from its nineteenth-century origins in Russia through the end of the Soviet state. With the advent of the USSR, nurses were instrumental in helping to build the New Soviet Person and in constructing a socialist society. Disease and illness were rampant in the early 1920s after years of war, revolution, and famine. The demand for nurses was great, but how might these workers best serve the country's needs? By examining living and working conditions, nurse-patient relations, education, and attempts at international nursing cooperation, Grant recounts the history of the Bolshevik effort to define the "Soviet" nurse and organize a new system of socialist care for the masses. Although the Bolsheviks aimed to transform healthcare along socialist lines, they ultimately failed as the struggle to train skilled medical workers became entangled in politics. Soviet Nightingales draws on rich archival research from Russia, the United States, and Britain to describe how ideology reinvented the role of the nurse and shaped the profession.
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