Easing Pain on the Western Front : American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice
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| Title: | Easing Pain on the Western Front : American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice |
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| Description: | World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses'encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns,'shell shock,'the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War. |
| Authors: | Paul E. Stepansky |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Nurses--History--20th century, World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--Western Front, World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female, Military nursing--Canada--History--20th century, Military nursing--Great Britain--History--20th century, Military nursing--United States--History--20th century |
| Categories: | MEDICAL / Nursing / General, HISTORY / Military / General, MEDICAL / History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses'encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns,'shell shock,'the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War. |
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| ISBN: | 9781476680019 9781476639116 |
