'Some of us pushed forward and let the world see what could be done': Aboriginal Australian nurses and midwives, 1900-2005
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Article Title | 'Some of us pushed forward and let the world see what could be done': Aboriginal Australian nurses and midwives, 1900-2005 |
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ERA Journal ID | 34266 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Best, Odette (Author) and Gorman, Don (Author) |
Journal Title | Labour History: a journal of labour and social history |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Place of Publication | Sydney, Australia |
ISSN | 0023-6942 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.111.0149 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5263/labourhistory.111.0149?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents |
Abstract | This paper locates the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives which only emerged in publications from the 1950s onwards. It seeks to privilege the voices of Aboriginal nurses and midwives, and recognise their contributions to the nursing aqnd midwifery professions. It identifies two key developments in Australian history that influenced the acceptance of Aboriginal women into a career in nursing and midwifery: the gradual decline of policies of protection, segregation and assimilation, and the shift of nursing education from hosiptals into the tertiary sector. |
Keywords | nurses, nursing education, obstetrical nursing, nursing history, midwives, midwifery, Aborignal nurses, Aboriginal midwives, racism, recruitment and retention, nursing students |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 450107. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history |
420599. Nursing not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Winner of the 2016 Indigenous Publication Excellence Award. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3v50/-some-of-us-pushed-forward-and-let-the-world-see-what-could-be-done-aboriginal-australian-nurses-and-midwives-1900-2005
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