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Nurses on the front line : when disaster strikes, 1878-2010 / Barbra Mann Wall, Arlene Keeling ; editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster nursing--United States--History.
- Disaster nursing.
- Nursing--United States--History.
- Nursing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines how nurses have responded to natural and man-made disasters in the in the US and Canada over the course of the previous and current centuries. It identifies the care delivered during various disasters; explicates how nurses at the local level intersected with the American Red Cross (ARC), American Nurses Association (ANA), the U.S. Public Health Service, and other federal/state organizations; describes how this intersection changed over time; and analyzes how issues of race, class, and gender influenced the ways nurses and other health care professionals responded to disaste
- Contents:
- Nurses on the Front Line When Disaster Strikes, 1878-2010; The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi:"For God's Sake, Send Us Some Nurses and Doctors"; The 1900 Galveston Hurricane: "Unspeakable Calamity"; The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: "A Lifetime of Experience"; The Monongah Mine Disaster, December 1907: "A Roar Like a Thousand Niagaras"; Nurses' Response Across Geographic Boundaries in the Halifax Disaster, December 6, 1917: Border Cr; The Boston Instructive District Nurses Association and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic: "Intelligent Co
- The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and the "Angels of Mercy"The New London, Texas, School Explosion, 1937: "Unparalleled Disaster"; The 1942 Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: Out of the Ashes; The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964: Lessons in Leadership; Gendered Notions of Expertise and Bravery: New York City 2001; A Tale of Two Shelters: A Katrina Story, 2005; Striving for the "New Normal": The Aftermath of International Disasters; Conclusion; NOTES; 159; xix,; xix,; 34
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-76443-8
- 9786612764431
- 0-8261-0520-3
- OCLC:
- 676698373
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