Colonial Caring A History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Nursing

Introduction: Contextualising colonial and post-colonial nursing - Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins 1. Lady amateurs and gentleman professionals: emergency nursing in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 - Sam Goodman 2. Imperial sisters: disease, conflict and nursing in the British Empire, 1880-1914 - Angharad Fletcher 3. The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 - Charlotte Dale 4. Native health nurses: 'they do what you wish; they like you; you the good nurse!' - Linda Bryder 5. Training 'the natives' as nurses - so what went wrong? An Australian context - Odette Best 6. Working toward health, Christianity and democracy: American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico 1900-30 - Winifred Connerton 7. Educating native female nurses in the Dutch East Indies in the early twentieth century - Liesbeth Hesselink 8. A sample of Italian fascist colonialism: nursing and medical records in the Imperial War in Ethiopia, 1935-6 - Anna La Torre, Giancarlo Celeri Bellotti and Cecilia Sironi 9. The changing face of medical missions in Nigeria, 1937-70 - Barbra Mann-Wall 10. Two China gadabouts: guerrilla nursing with the Friends' Ambulance Unit, 1946-8 - Susan Armstrong Reid Afterword - Rima Apple Index