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Negotiating relationships of power in a maternal and child health centre: the experience of WHO nurse Margaret Campbell Jackson in Iran, 1954-1956.
- Source :
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Nursing history review : official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing [Nurs Hist Rev] 2015; Vol. 23, pp. 87-122. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- From November 1954 to November 1956, Canadian nurse Margaret Campbell Jackson was employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and was stationed in Tehran, Iran, where she participated in the establishment of a Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Centre. The objective of the project, known as Iran 10, was twofold: to set up a health service for mothers and children and to initiate a field training program for Iranian physicians, nurses, and other health care providers. Drawing on 180 letters Jackson wrote to her family in Canada from Iran, this article analyzes the MCH Centre as a contact zone and considers the relationships Jackson developed with staff affiliated with the project. The Centre became a space of cross-cultural encounters, where locally and foreign-trained Iranian staff and expatriates mingled and shared working relationships. I argue that authority was negotiated and contested through interactions and associations that were often unequal and framed by notions of progress, modernization, race, and health. Personality also played an important role.
- Subjects :
- Canada
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Iran
Male
Negotiating
Pregnancy
Child Health Services history
Child Health Services organization & administration
Leadership
Maternal Health Services organization & administration
Nursing Care organization & administration
World Health Organization history
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1062-8061
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Nursing history review : official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25272477
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1891/1062-8061.23.87