Book - Illustrated book, Sheryl Brennan, Contradictory stories: an oral history of a group of 1960s nursing students960's, 2006

Physical description

Cover has black background title and authors name in white print on front and spine. Black and white photo of Judith Palfrey (Mullaney) as a 3rd year nurse on front. Description of book, author information and two photos of hospital words on back cover. Photos of nursing students within

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

printed sticker: this book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by (printed) Sheryl Brennan (handwritten)

Summary

Recollections of 28 middle-aged women of their nursing training that they undertook together at the Alfred Hospital in the 1960's. What nursing has meant to this group, how it changed them as people, and if they identified as nurses whether they work in nursing or not, were questions addressed in this book

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