In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through an examination of the unique relationship between the professionalization of nursing and the twentieth-century migration of Filipinos to the United States. The first book-length study of the history...
In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these ...
Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of -performative realism, - a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions. These essays by a range of film scholars propose stimulating new approaches to the critical evaluation of modern realist films and such referential genres as reenactment, historical film, adaptation, portrait film, and documentary. By providing close readings of classic and contemporary works, Rites of Realism...
Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a not...
In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through an examination of the unique relationship between the professionalization of nursing and the twentieth-century migration of Filipinos to the United States. The first book-length study of the history...
In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these ...
- "Sensitive and absorbing study." - Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University "Transformative in the strongest sense... Crafts a unique history." - Mark Jerng, author of Claiming Others
- "Sensitive and absorbing study." - Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University "Transformative in the strongest sense... Crafts a unique history." - Mark ...
- -Sensitive and absorbing study.- - Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University -Transformative in the strongest sense... Crafts a unique history.- - Mark Jerng, author of Claiming Others
- -Sensitive and absorbing study.- - Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University -Transformative in the strongest sense... Crafts a unique history.- - Mark ...
