This is a fascinating book examining 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.
One Hundred Years of Wartime Nursing Practices, 1854 – 1953
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Goodreads calls this book ‘…an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work.’ Following an introduction by the two excellent editors, this collection is split into three main sections.
The first section, titled Gentlemen’s Wars looks at the Crimean War, the American Civil War and the Boer War and looks at areas as diverse as nursing typhoid patients; class and gender in British military nursing during the Crimea campaign; and the influence of Nightingale on southern nurses during America’s civil war.
The second section again covers a vast array of subjects from WW1 from nursing the victims of gas; Canadian military nursing in Petrograd; and Australian nursing in the Middle East.
The final section includes contributions covering such topics as nursing with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War; nursing those liberated from Bergen-Belsen; and Norwegian mobile army surgical hospitals.
The originality of the text lies not only in the breadth of wartime practices covered, but also the international scope of both the contributors and the nurses they consider. A really great read.
Jane Brooks is a Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Manchester and Deputy Director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery
Christine Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the University of Manchester
Edited – Jane Brooks and Christine E. Hallett
Format – Paperback
Publisher – Manchester University Press
Pub date – 2015
ISBN – 9780719091421
Pages – 306
Weight – 414g
Dimensions – 140mm x 216mm
