On the field of mercy
Subtitle: women medical volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War
By: by Mercedes Graf.
Publisher: Humanity Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591023272
Subjects: Women in medicine -- United States -- History; Women physicians -- United States -- History; Nurses -- United States -- History; Nuns -- United States -- History; War -- Relief of sick and wounded; Military Medicine -- history -- United States; Physicians, Women -- history -- United States; Military Nursing -- history -- United States; American Civil War; Spanish-American War, 1898; World War I; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; United States -- History, Military
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.