Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession

A Gendered Opportunity

Jane Brooks

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Manchester University Press
11 September 2024

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Oral history; History of medicine

Series: Nursing History and Humanities

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. As the country faced inevitable war, the Government and the profession's elite courted refugees as an antidote to the shortages, but many hospitals refused to employ Continental Jews.

The book explores the changes in the refugees' status and lives from the war years to the foundation of the National Health Service and to the latter decades of the twentieth century. It places the refugees at the forefront of manoeuvres in nursing practice, education and research at a time of social upheaval and alterations in the position of women.

By: Jane Brooks
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781526167422
ISBN 10: 1526167425
Series: Nursing History and Humanities
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 11 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction – Nursing: Gender, migration and opportunity Chapter 1 – Escape Chapter 2 – The nursing world Chapter 3 – War nurse Chapter 4 – From the post-war world to a nursing legacy Conclusion Bibliography -- .

Jane Brooks is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester

Reviews for Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

Winner of the 2024 Lavinia L. Dock Book Prize 2024. 'Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession is a highly insightful book, very much to be recommended to all: historians, nurses, doctors, and, indeed, politicians.' Leo van Bergen, Medicine, Conflict and Survival Journal -- .