Book ID: CBB196980408

First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (2013)

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The chapters in this volume focus on the thousands of women from the Allied nations who worked as nurses during the First World War ... They consistently suggest that a serious consideration of a broad corpus of the written texts produced by nurses from different Allied nations leads us, necessarily, to revise our understanding of the First World War, offering important new (and, inevitably, gendered) perspectives on the experiences and legacies of war.

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Review Rosemary Wall (2016) Review of "First World War Nursing: New Perspectives". Social History of Medicine (pp. 190-191). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Janet S. K. Watson (2013) A Sister's War: The Diaries of Alice Slythe. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 103-122). unapi

Chapter Kirsty Harris (2013) "All for the Boys": The Nurse-Patient Relationship of Australian Army Nurses in the First World War. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 71-86). unapi

Chapter Christine E. Hallett (2013) "Emotional Nursing": Involvement, Engagement and Detachment in the Writings of First World War Nurses and Vads. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 87-102). unapi

Chapter Margaret R. Higonnet (2013) Cubist Vision in Nursing Accounts. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 156-172). unapi

Chapter Hazel Hutchison (2013) The Theater of Pain: Observing Mary Borden in the Forbidden Zone. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 139-155). unapi

Chapter Carol Acton (2013) Negotiating Injury and Masculinity in First World War Nurses' Writing. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 123-138). unapi

Chapter Alison S. Fell; Christine E. Hallett (2013) Introduction: New perspectives on First World War nursing. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 1-16). unapi

Chapter Margaret H. Harrow (2013) Making Sister Julie: the origin of First World War French nursing heroines in Franco-Prussian war stories. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 17-34). unapi

Chapter Angela K. Smith (2013) "Beacons of Britishness": British Nurses and Female Doctors as Prisoners of War. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 35-50). unapi

Chapter Jane Potter (2013) "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. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 51-70). unapi

Chapter Alison S. Fell (2013) Afterword: Remembering the First World War Nurse in Britain and France. In: First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (pp. 173-192). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hallett, Christine E.
Alison S. Fell
Harris, Kirsty
Margaret H. Harrow
Janet S. K. Watson
Fiorilli, Olivia
Journals
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Canadian Journal of Health History/Revue canadienne d’histoire de la santé
Women's History Review
Canadian Journal of History
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Publishers
Plus, Pisa University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Manchester University Press
Concepts
Nurses and nursing
World War I
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Women and health
Psychology
Medicine
People
Gass, Clare
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Europe
United States
Canada
Italy
France
Australia
Institutions
Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
American Red Cross
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