Helen Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 5893849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Colonial Caring
Colonial Caring covers over a century of colonial nursing by nurses from a wide range of countries including: Denmark, Britain, USA, Holland and Italy; with the colonised countries including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) and the Danish West Indies. It presents unique perspectives from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism including aspects of race, cultural difference…
Establishing Connections, Restoring Relationships
This paper provides a comparative historiographical framework within which to reconsider the history of nursing. It asks why nursing has remained largely sidelined within the history of medicine, while the latter has gained mainstream respectability in the wider field of historical research. Gender historians are challenged to look at the under‐explored aspects of nursing's history such as pre‐Nightingale nurses and nursing, and the multiple and …
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips, and Elizabeth van Heyningen (eds), Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi (Clio Medica 74/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine), 2004. Pp. vi+318. €75 (hbk). ISBN: 90–420–1064–9. The prevailing spring and early summer wind, otherwise known as the ‘Cape Doctor', supposedly cleans the air of the Cape and blows away disease and pollution. It also helps to keep the vegetation green through the heat of summer and is a vi…
Spreading Germs
Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Medical practice and disease theories, c.1865 2. Veterinary medicine, the cattle plague and contagion, 1865-90 3. Germs in the air: surgeons, hospitalism and sepsis, c.1865-76 4. 'Something definite to guide you in your sanitary precautions': sanitary science, poisons and contagium viva, 1866-80 5. 'Deeper than the surface of the wound': surgeons antisepsis and asepsis, 1876-1900 6. From heredit…
Spreading Germs
Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Medical practice and disease theories, c.1865 2. Veterinary medicine, the cattle plague and contagion, 1865-90 3. Germs in the air: surgeons, hospitalism and sepsis, c.1865-76 4. 'Something definite to guide you in your sanitary precautions': sanitary science, poisons and contagium viva, 1866-80 5. 'Deeper than the surface of the wound': surgeons antisepsis and asepsis, 1876-1900 6. From heredit…
Establishing Connections, Restoring Relationships
This paper provides a comparative historiographical framework within which to reconsider the history of nursing. It asks why nursing has remained largely sidelined within the history of medicine, while the latter has gained mainstream respectability in the wider field of historical research. Gender historians are challenged to look at the under‐explored aspects of nursing's history such as pre‐Nightingale nurses and nursing, and the multiple and …
Spreading Germs
Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Medical practice and disease theories, c.1865 2. Veterinary medicine, the cattle plague and contagion, 1865-90 3. Germs in the air: surgeons, hospitalism and sepsis, c.1865-76 4. 'Something definite to guide you in your sanitary precautions': sanitary science, poisons and contagium viva, 1866-80 5. 'Deeper than the surface of the wound': surgeons antisepsis and asepsis, 1876-1900 6. From heredit…
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips, and Elizabeth van Heyningen (eds), Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi (Clio Medica 74/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine), 2004. Pp. vi+318. €75 (hbk). ISBN: 90–420–1064–9. The prevailing spring and early summer wind, otherwise known as the ‘Cape Doctor', supposedly cleans the air of the Cape and blows away disease and pollution. It also helps to keep the vegetation green through the heat of summer and is a vi…
Establishing Connections, Restoring Relationships
This paper provides a comparative historiographical framework within which to reconsider the history of nursing. It asks why nursing has remained largely sidelined within the history of medicine, while the latter has gained mainstream respectability in the wider field of historical research. Gender historians are challenged to look at the under‐explored aspects of nursing's history such as pre‐Nightingale nurses and nursing, and the multiple and …
Colonial Caring
Colonial Caring covers over a century of colonial nursing by nurses from a wide range of countries including: Denmark, Britain, USA, Holland and Italy; with the colonised countries including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) and the Danish West Indies. It presents unique perspectives from which to interrogate colonialism and post-colonialism including aspects of race, cultural difference…
Medicine (4 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Asepsis (1 work) · Bacteriology (1 work) · Biology (1 work)