Beyond the Call of Duty: A Medical History of Jersey During the German Occupation 1940 - 1945 - Couverture souple

Garnier, Val

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0992715938 ISBN 13 : 9780992715939

Editeur : Seeker Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

In her book, 'Beyond the Call of Duty', former nurse and Health Promotion Officer, Val Garnier, describes the daily lives of medical staff and patients, in Jersey's hospitals and nursing homes, during the German Occupation. Doctors, pharmacists and nurses, deprived of their usual supplies of medicines, commodities, light and fuel, found innovative ways of coping. Medical Officer of Health Reports show how Islanders underwent a dramatic change in lifestyle and how the privayions of the Occupation caused some medical conditions, whilst easing, or eradicating, others. Diabetics were admitted to hospital and when insulin ran out, they died. One young boy discharged himself and spent the rest of the Occupation digging people's gardens, in an effort to keep his blood sugar levels down. His extraordinary story tells how a German soldier gave him insulin, thus enabling him to live to tell his tale. The book also includes many fascinating interviews with former doctor's, nurses, patients and others from the time recorded in 1995 by broadcaster Geraldine des Forges.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seeker Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0992715938
• ISBN 13: 9780992715939
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Éditeur: Des Forges Geraldine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg