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MedicineJanuary 2025Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820
by Alannah Tomkins
This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best of their ability, and often performed well, despite multiple threats to nurse reputations on the grounds of gender norms and social status. Chapters consider nursing in the home, in general hospitals, in specialist institutions like the Royal Chelsea Hospital and asylums, plus during wartime, illuminated by multiple accounts of individual nurses. In these settings, it employs the sociological concept of 'dirty work' to contextualise the challenges to nurses and nursing identities.
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July 2014Design for Six Sigma
- Kompaktes Wissen - Konkrete Umsetzung - Praktische Arbeitshilfen
by Back, Stephan; Weigel, Hermann
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November 2012Kommunikation der Pest.
Seestädte des Ostseeraums und die Bedrohung durch die Seuche 1708–1713.
by Wahrmann, Carl Christian
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2020Images in the making
by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Andrew Meirion Jones, Joshua Pollard
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April 1985Die Pest in Bergamo
Und andere Novellen
by Jens Peter Jacobsen, Heinrich Vogeler, Mathilde Mann
Heinrich Vogeler, geboren 1872 in Bremen, war Maler, Grafiker, Architekt und Schriftsteller. Er war Teil der ersten Generation der Künstlerkolonie Worspwede, zu deren Mittelpunkt sein Wohnhaus für einige Jahre wurde. Heinrich Vogeler verstarb im Jahr 1942 unter tragischen Umständen im sowjetischen Exil.
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June 2017If Birds Fly Back
Über die Liebe unter Berücksichtigung allgemeiner Gesetzmäßigkeiten:
by Sorosiak, Carlie / Übersetzt von Köbele, Ulrike
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013The Black Death
by Rosemary Horrox
This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and explanatory material and each volume includes a comprehensive guide to the sources' interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of recent research on the topics covered. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.
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