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In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories
By Sally Goold, Kerrynne Liddle
Overview
The intimate, private, and heart wrenching stories told in this book, the first of its kind in Australia, will penetrate the hearts and souls of even the most hardened reader.
Told with incredible dignity and humility, each of the individual and deeply personal stories recounted is a powerful testimony to the gross inhumanity and brutal capacity of white people in Australia - colonists who selectively destroy and humiliate, without remorse, the lives and souls of their fellow black Australians.
In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories provides a powerful catalyst for questioning and calling into question the taken-for-granted humanity of us all.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
- Sadie Canning MBE
My story: The beginning, childhood, ambitions and achievements - Joan Winch AM
A vision for our people - Jilpia Jones
The history of my nursing - MaryAnn Bin-Sallik EDD (Harvard)
Beyond expectations: From nursing to academia - Ros Pierce
Nursing: In my heart and in my blood - Faye Ryan (nee Clarke)
Something that helped others - Shane Mohor
A focus on men's health - Lowitja O'Donoghue AC, CBE
Racism often came from patients, not colleagues - Janine Cox
Investigate our heritage - Sharon Dennis
I made it; I am a nurse! - Karen Atkinson
Mum and Dad's fighting spirit inspired me - Barbara Browne
I never forgot my dream - Roslyn Lockhart
The power of education - Kerrie Doyle
I have been a nurse for 30 years. I love it! - Vicki Bradford
I would not trade it for quids - Sally Goold OAM (nee Bamblett)
Keep your eyes on the prize! - Alecia McKeown
Why I wish to become a nurse - Garry Torrens (Mr T)
A sense of understanding - Ellie Gaffney AM
Determination to succeed - Emily Marshall
My story of the red cloth - Noela Baigrie (nee Fogarty)
The foundation for caring is respect and dignity - Carmen Parter
Beyond nursing - Diana Ross
The birthing tree
Published: 2005
ISBN:
978-0-9757422-2-8
Pages: xiii+120
Imprint:
Verdant House
This book is available as a pdf from eBooks.
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