Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War

by Christine E. Hallett

Book Overview

In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of 'containing trauma'. Broad in its scope and detailed in its research, the book analyses the work of nurses from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719085969
• ISBN13: 9780719085963
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"