New Zealand Nurses: Caring for Our People 1880 – 1950
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.iNS37.9530Abstract
Pamela Wood’s New Zealand Nurses: Caring for our People 1880-1950 reveals nursing through the eyes of fierce pioneers of New Zealand nursing. It provides a valuable window on the foundations of professional nursing and is likely to be of interest to nursing scholars and other curious readers. At the same time, however, it is missing the voice of Māori, the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand. By failing to consider the nursing practices before colonisation, or the impact of colonisation, Wood falls into the trap of colonial nostalgia, focussing on imported systems, rather than on their contextualisation in Aotearoa.
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2024-07-02
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