Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs
In World War II, at a small RAF hospital in the south of England, plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe carried out groundbreaking surgery on servicemen who had suffered chronically disfiguring facial burns. His regime of treatment and rehabilitation threw out the rule book by encouraging nurses to esta...
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| description | In World War II, at a small RAF hospital in the south of England, plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe carried out groundbreaking surgery on servicemen who had suffered chronically disfiguring facial burns. His regime of treatment and rehabilitation threw out the rule book by encouraging nurses to establish friendships and relationships with the patients. For the nurses this dismantling of the usual boundaries was often difficult to manage. This article examines the nurses' experience and presents a previously undocumented aspect of wartime history which is at odds with public memory. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-298252017-09-13T15:29:59Z Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs Byrski, Liz In World War II, at a small RAF hospital in the south of England, plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe carried out groundbreaking surgery on servicemen who had suffered chronically disfiguring facial burns. His regime of treatment and rehabilitation threw out the rule book by encouraging nurses to establish friendships and relationships with the patients. For the nurses this dismantling of the usual boundaries was often difficult to manage. This article examines the nurses' experience and presents a previously undocumented aspect of wartime history which is at odds with public memory. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29825 10.1080/09612025.2012.661153 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Byrski, Liz Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs |
| title | Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs |
| title_full | Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs |
| title_fullStr | Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs |
| title_short | Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs |
| title_sort | emotional labour as war work: women up close and personal with mcindoe's guinea pigs |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29825 |