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Author Reddy, Sujani K., author

Title Nursing & empire : gendered labor and migration from India to the United States / Sujani K. Reddy
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Feminizing the Christian medical mission -- Searching for Salome -- Reconstructing the imperial nation -- Remaking mother India -- From Kerala to America -- Putting the "foreign" in nurse im/migration -- Indian nurses navigate the U.S. division of nursing labor -- Workers and wives
Summary In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and US imperialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 25, 2015)
Subject Nursing -- India -- History
Nursing -- United States -- History
Nursing -- Manpower -- India
Nursing -- Manpower -- United States
Women.
Medical personnel.
Humanities.
Demography.
Organization.
Social sciences.
Health services administration.
Medical care.
Public health.
History.
Nursing.
Women
Population Dynamics
History, Modern 1601-
Asia, Western
Health Occupations
Professional Practice
Humanities
Demography
Organization and Administration
Disciplines and Occupations
Persons
Americas
Population Characteristics
Epidemiologic Measurements
Social Sciences
Geographic Locations
Health Services Administration
Named Groups
Delivery of Health Care
Geographicals
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Public Health
Environment and Public Health
Emigration and Immigration
History
Nursing
History, 20th Century
History of Nursing
Women, Working
Nurses, International -- history
Women, Working -- history
Emigration and Immigration -- history
Patient Care
humanities.
demography.
social sciences.
public health.
history (discipline)
nursing (health science)
women (female humans)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Women
Social sciences
Public health
Organization
Medical personnel
Medical care
Humanities
History
Health services administration
Demography
Emigration and immigration
Nursing
SUBJECT India -- Emigration and immigration -- History
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
North America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092455
North America https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009656
Asia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001208
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194
Subject North America
India
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469625096
1469625091
9781469625089
1469625083
Other Titles Nursing and empire