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    Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs

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    Authors
    Byrski, Liz
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Byrski, L. 2012. Emotional Labour as War Work: Women up close and personal with McIndoe's Guinea Pigs. Women's History Review. 21 (3): pp. 341-361.
    Source Title
    Women's History Review
    DOI
    10.1080/09612025.2012.661153
    ISSN
    0961-2025
    School
    School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29825
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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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