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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth HullPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781350108097ISBN 10: 135010809 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 18 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsElizabeth Hull's prize-winning study, is a rich and empathic study of nurses' experiences in Bethesda Hospital in KZN from the 1930s to the present, and a wide-ranging account of their professionalization and politicization in years of dramatic political and social change. Careful research traces the complex relationship between the state, missions, nurses and doctors, revealing the contradictions inherent in the changing nature of professionalism, while a brilliant coda illuminates the more theoretical aspects of her study. * Shula Marks, SOAS, UK * Elizabeth Hull's rich and insightful ethnography of a rural hospital shows how nurses confronted apartheid's racial glass ceiling only to face a labyrinth of paperwork and patients' new rights in the democratic era. As South Africa plans a universal health system, policy makers and scholars inside and outside the country should read this pathbreaking book to recognize how health workers make projects of care through mundane routines and moral codes of professionalism. * Mark Hunter, University of Toronto, Canada * Hospitals and health care providers are often overlooked when scholars examine the forces that shape societies. Not only does Hull's book provide a broad analysis of nurses' experiences, it reminds us how crucial these actors and their spaces are in understanding the transition to post-apartheid South Africa - including significant changes in health care as well as the dynamics of a professional black middle-class. * Leslie Anne Hadfield, Brigham Young University, USA * Author InformationElizabeth Hull is Lecturer in Anthropology at SOAS University of London, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |