International Health Humanities Network Membership

Jane Brooks, RN, PhD is a lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester. Dr Brooks is the Deputy Director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery and Editor of the Bulletin of the UK Association for the History of Nursing. Her early research in the history of nursing focused on the experiences of nurses in the higher education sector in the inter-war and early post Second World War era. More recently she has studied the work of nurses in elderly care in the mid-twentieth century. She is currently working on the history of nursing work in the Second World War and has published on the care of victims of typhus epidemics and the nursing work on the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.  She is co-editor of a forthcoming text,One Hundred Years of Wartime Nursing Practices, 1854-1954. Dr Brooks has worked extensively with oral history and as both a nurse and historian is particulary interested how nurses used themselves as agents of healing in conflict and post-conflict environments.