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Author Grant, Susan, 1982- author.

Title Soviet nightingales : care under communism / Susan Grant.

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Social medicine -- Soviet Union.
Social medicine.
Soviet Union.
Nurses -- Soviet Union -- History.
Nurses.
History.
Nurses -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Nursing ethics -- Soviet Union.
Social conditions.
Medical ethics -- Soviet Union.
Medical ethics.
Nursing ethics.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Nurses -- Social conditions.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Grant, Susan, 1982- Soviet nightingales Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2022] 9781501763564 (DLC) 2021045769
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