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MANCHESTER Containing Trauma Nursing Work in the First World War 2010 Edition by Christine Hallett
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 the United States of America. It draws on highly personal writings: letters and diaries drawn from archives and libraries throughout the world. This wide-ranging book explores a range of treatment scenarios, from the Western and Eastern Fronts to the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and India. It considers 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. -- . Table of contents :- PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction: 'Containing Trauma': First World War nurses' personal writings2. Containing physical trauma on the Western Front3. Relief and restoration: rebuilding the physical self4. Nursing in far-flung places5. Emotional containment6. Self-containment7. Conclusion: First World War nurses as 'containers of trauma'ReferencesIndex -- .