Article ID: CBB001250917

Tending the Army: Women and the British General Hospital in North America, 1754--1763 (2010)

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This essay argues that the British Army's North American general hospital and an increasingly large and diverse group of army women became not only connected but dependent on one another during the Seven Years' War. This relationship derived from the army's reorganization of its medical services in a way that intentionally predicated the hospital's operation and success on army women working for it, particularly as nurses. Both the medical staff and women attached to regular and provincial regiments realized benefits from this linkage; the hospital was able to cope with increasingly large numbers of patients, and women found that serving as nurses provided them with reliable access to regimental provisioning and security. Yet hospital personnel also increasingly had to regulate army women on behalf of the regiments, while women working for the hospital faced heightened dangers of illness, military attack, enemy capture, and death.

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Authors & Contributors
Hallett, Christine E.
Coddington, Ronald S.
Astrid Stölzle
Adams, Caroline
Brooks, Jane
Zerr, Sheila Rankin
Journals
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Medical History
Women's History Review
Social History of Medicine
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
History of Psychiatry
Publishers
Manchester University Press
University of Virginia Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Steiner
Routledge
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Nurses and nursing
Women in medicine
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
World War I
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Canada
Europe
Great Britain
Southern states (U.S.)
England
Institutions
University of Toronto
Universität Göttingen
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