Clement Masakure

African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering the colonial and post-colonial periods, African nurses and everyday work puts at the centre of historical enquiry the experiences of African nurses who laboured day and night in Zimbabwe's hospitals, healing the sick and nursing the infirm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9781526135476
• ISBN-10: 1526135477
• Artikelnr.: 57374457

Autorenporträt

Clement Masakure is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: African nurses in Zimbabwe's hospitals 2 The experiences of
the pioneer generation of nurses, c. 1900-49 3 'Our kitchen days are over
... We can no longer continue the tradition of our predecessors': Taking up
nursing as a career option, c. 1950 to the 1960s 4 The Africanisation of
Rhodesia's clinical spaces and an anatomy of everyday work in hospitals,
1960-70 5 Nursing a nation at war: Nurses' experiences during the 1970s 6
The trajectories of nursing in independent Zimbabwe, 1980-96 7 Conclusion:
Nurses and nursing in twentieth-century Zimbabwe Appendix 1: Colonial and
post-colonial names Appendix 2: Explanations and translations Bibliography
Index