First World War nursing : new perspectives / edited by Alison S. Fell and Christine E. Hallett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fell, Alison S., 1971-

Hallett, Christine E.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Modern History

Routledge studies in modern history ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Medical care.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--Sources.

Military nursing--History--20th century.

Military nursing.

Military nursing--History--20th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that takes into account multiple facets of Allied wartime nursing: historical contexts (history of the profession, recruitment, teaching, different national socio-political contexts), popular cultural stereotypes (in propaganda, popular culture) and longstanding gender norms (woman-as-nurturer). They draw on a wide range of hitherto negl

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Perspectives on First World War Nursing; Notes; Part I: National Identities; 1. Making Sister Julie: The Origin of First World War French Nursing Heroines in Franco-Prussian War Stories; Notes; 2. "Beacons of Britishness": British Nurses and Female Doctors as Prisoners of War; Notes; 3. "I Begin to Feel as a Normal Being Should, in Spite of the Blood and Anguish in Which I Move": American Women's First World War Nursing Memoirs; Introduction: The American Mission

The Spectacle of the European War"Nobody is a Spectator": America Enters the War; Blood and Anguish; Beyond the Armistice; Conclusion: The First World War and its American Legacy; Notes; Part II: Professional Identities; 4. "All for the Boys": The Nurse-Patient Relationship of Australian Army Nurses in the First World War; War Nursing; Professional Intimacy; Power; Trust; Empathy; Respect; Notes; 5. "Emotional Nursing": Involvement, Engagement, and Detachment in the Writings of First World War Nurses and VADs; The Emotional World of the First World War VAD

The Professional World of the Trained NurseMilitary Nursing and Emotional Boundaries; Conclusion: Overlapping Worlds; Notes; 6. A Sister's War: The Diaries of Alice Slythe; Becoming Sister Slythe; Base; Closer to the Front; Conclusion: Becoming Mrs. Alment; Notes; Part III: Nurse as Witness; 7. Negotiating Injury and Masculinity in First World War Nurses' Writing; Notes; 8. The Theater of Pain: Observing Mary Borden in The Forbidden Zone; Acknowledgment; Notes; 9. Cubist Vision in Nursing Accounts; Notes; Afterword: Remembering the First World War Nurse in Britain and France

Nations Remembering NursesNurses Remembering Nurses; Remembering the First World War Nurse in Popular Culture; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 29, 2013).

ISBN:

1-134-62699-1

1-134-62692-4

0-203-44892-8

9780203448922

OCLC:

850533929