Buy this book on-line BINGHAM, STELLA: : MINISTERING ANGELSLONDON.OSPREY PUBLISHING LIMITED,1979. ISBN 0850453178.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial reproduction illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.All four corners minisculely rubbed with miniscule laminate loss. Top edges lightly aged/toned,fore-edges minimally and sporadically foxed/spotted or grubbed but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no foxing/spotting to text body and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain RAF blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,6-224pp [paginated] includes b/w reproduction illustrated frntis to verso of Contents list/table,13 chapters,profuse b/w illus and photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,a Bibliography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title and b/w illustrated title page.
The struggle waged by women for emancipation from the tyranny of convention has been a constant theme over the centuries.'Ministering Angels' examines a central part of this theme; it is a complete history of the first profession that not only opened its doors to women,but was also largely created by them.
Starting as far back as medieval times, with the role of nuns as nurses in feudal communities,the book contains fascinating stories of courage and single-minded determination,epitomised in very different ways by such figures as Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell.It charts the fight the first women nurses waged against bigotry and prejudice,and how they overcame the popular notion of a nurse as a gin-soaked Mrs Gamp,both in fact and in the fictional portrait of Charles Dickens.It tells the stories of the volunteer nurses of the two world wars,an experience which gave middle-class women in particular their first taste of working life.International in scope,it shows in essence a social revolution in action, which has had a profound effect on the place that women hold in the world of today.
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