On the field of mercy
Subtitle: women medical volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War
By: Mercedes Graf
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781591023272
Subjects: World War I.; Military History; Women physicians; Military Nursing; American Civil War; War; History, 20th Century; Relief of sick and wounded; Nurses; Women in medicine; Nuns; Women Physicians; Military Medicine; History, 19th Century; History; Spanish-American War, 1898
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical antecedents and background issues; title: Women physicians in the Civil War; title: Nurses in the Spanish-American War; title: Nuns in the Spanish-American War; title: Women physicians in the Spanish-American War; title: Nurses who served in two wars; title: Women contract surgeons in WWI; title: Anna Coleman Ladd and the Red Cross; title: Studio of portrait masks in WWI.