Soviet Nightingales : Care under Communism /

Grant, Susan, 1982-

Soviet Nightingales : Care under Communism / Susan Grant. - 1 online resource (336 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

War and revolution -- Creating order out of chaos -- Black star, red star: finding the Soviet way -- Proletarian paradise: medical workers rise up -- Stalinist care: cadres decide everything -- Fortresses of sanitary defense: preparing for war -- A decade of war and reconstruction -- Caring for the mind -- Communist morality, activism, and ethics.

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"Examines the role nurses and orderlies played in psychiatric care post-WWII and analyzes relationships and power dynamics between medical workers. Engages with key issues affecting medical workers and broader social and political events, including the role of nurses as moral ambassadors in the 1960s and the importance of ethics and deontology in nursing in the 1970s and 1980s."--

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Social medicine.
Nursing ethics.
Nurses--Social conditions.
Nurses.
Medical ethics.
Medical ethics--Soviet Union.
Nursing ethics--Soviet Union.
Nurses--Social conditions.--Soviet Union
Nurses--History.--Soviet Union
Social medicine--Soviet Union.


Soviet Union.


History.
Electronic books.