Women doctors in war
By: Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.
Contributors: Graf, Mercedes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781603441469
Subjects: Women physicians -- United States -- History; Women and war -- United States -- History; United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- History; United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical personnel -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Hen medics: women physicians in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War; title: Necessity's handmaidens: the Army's women contract surgeons of World War I; title: Finding a place in the sun: women Army doctors in World War II; title: Join the Navy and see the world: women Navy doctors in World War II; title: Out of place: women military doctors in Cold War America; title: On the edge of equality: contemporary women military physicians; title: Epilogue.