Title: One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854-1953 /
Authors: Brooks, Jane; Hallett, Christine E.; Brooks, Jane; Brooks, Jane
Date: 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Physical description: xvii, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC class: U
Abstract: This volume examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. In its exploration of multiple nursing roles during the wars, it considers the responsiveness of nursing work, as crisis scenarios gave rise to improvisation and the - sometimes quite dramatic - breaking of practice boundaries.
Contents: Introduction: the practice of nursing and the exigencies of war -- Pt. I: Gentlemen's wars -- Class, gender and professional expertise: British military nursing in the Crimean War -- American Nightingales: the influence of Florence Nightingale on Southern nurses during the American Civil War -- Traversing the veldt with "Tommy Atkins': the clinical challenges of nursing typhoid patients during the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) -- Pt. II: Industrial war -- "This fiendish mode of warfare': nursing the victims of gas poisoning in the First World War -- Health healing and harmony: invalid cookery and feeling by Australian nurses in the Middle East in the First World War -- Eyewitnesses to revolution: Canadian military nurses at Petrograd, 1915-17 -- The impact of the First World War on asylum and voluntary hospital nurses' work and health -- Pt. III: Technological warfare -- Blood and guts: nursing with International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 -- 'Those maggots - they did a wonderful job': the nurses' role in wound management in civilian hospitals during the Second World War -- 'The nurse stoops down ... for me': nursing the liberated persons at Bergen-Belsen -- The Norwegian mobile army surgical hospital: nursing at the front -- Moving forward: Australian flight nurses in the Korean War.