Christine E. Hallett
Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War
- ISBN 13:
- 9780719085963
- author:
- Christine E. Hallett
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 21.3 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Genre:
- Health, Family & Lifestyle, Medical & Healthcare Practitioners, Nursing
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Christine Hallett's book explores the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War, arguing that they found meaning in their work by identifying it as a process of "containing trauma".
The book analyzes the work of nurses from various countries, including Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, drawing on personal writings such as letters and diaries from archives and libraries worldwide.
It examines 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 in a range of treatment scenarios, including those on the Western and Eastern fronts, as well as in Mesopotamia and India.
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