Easing pain on the Western Front : American nurses of the great war and the birth of modern nursing practice / by Paul E. Stepansky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stepansky, Paul E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--Western Front.

Military nursing--United States--History--20th century.

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

Military nursing--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Nurses--History--20th century.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female.

Medical care.

Military nursing.

Military participation--Female.

Nurses.

History.

Canada.

Great Britain.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

American nurses of the great war and the birth of modern nursing practice

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020.

Summary:

"World War I is widely 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, this powerful study describes WWI nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of war-related injury-wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu-and the interventions and technologies they deployed in treating them, including the Carrel-Dakin method of deep wound irrigation, the Balkan frame, and the Ohio Monovalve gas anesthesia machine."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Epiphanies

Blood

Total Care

Poison gas

Shell Shock

Plague

Onward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476680019

1476680019

OCLC:

1120137407