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Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

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Series: Nursing History and Humanities

Medical ReferenceGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1526194902
ISBN13: 9781526194909
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. As the country faced inevitable war, the Government and the profession's elite courted refugees as an antidote to the shortages, but many hospitals refused to employ Continental Jews.

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