The course of professionalization

Jewish nursing in Poland in the interwar period

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4516172
AutoresRakefet Zalashik (University of Edinburgh), Nadav Davidovitch (0000-0001-5709-9265, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas93-109
Fecha de publicación2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s026988971900005x
PMID31124776
OpenAlexW2944860184
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas20

ArgumentThis paper focuses on the Jewish nursing profession in Poland during the interwar period. We argue that the integration of Jewish women in medical activity under the AJDC (American Jewish Distribution Committee) and TOZ (Towarzystwa Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej [the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish People]) emerged in Poland less from the adoption of gender equality and more out of necessity. On the one hand, JDC and TOZ needed Jewish nurses and public health nurses to carry out their health campaigns and build a public health infrastructure. On the other hand, a new generation of Jewish women needed job opportunities that would enable them to make a living and be independent. More broadly this case study shows that the implementation of American "reformative" ideals into the local Polish reality, including in the newly emerging public health field, involved adaptation, negotiation, and in some cases, resentment

Archaeology · Art · Economic history · Interwar period · Judaism · Negotiation · Political science · Professionalization · Public health · Sociology · World War II · Catholicism, Bioethics, Media, Education · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies