First World War nursing : new perspectives
2015
Book
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 neglected historical sources, including diaries, novels, letters and material culture. The result is a fully-rounded new study of nurses' unique and compelling perspectives on the unprecedented experiences of the First World War.
Main title:
First World War nursing : new perspectives / edited by Alison S. Fell, Christine E. Hallett.
Author:
Fell, Alison S., 1971-, editorHallett, Christine E., editor
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2015.
Collation:
216 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Notes:
Originally published: 2013.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
<P>Introduction: New Perspectives on First World War Nursing <I>Christine E. Hallett and Alison S. Fell </I><B>Part 1: National Identities </B>1. Making Sister Julie: The Origin of First World War French Nursing Heroines in Franco-Prussian War Stories <I>Margaret H. Darrow </I>2. "Beacons of Britishness": British Nurses and Female Doctors as Prisoners of War <I>Angela K. Smith </I>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 <I>Jane Potter </I><B>Part 2: Professional Identities </B>4. "All for the Boys": The Nurse-Patient Relationship of Australian Army Nurses in the First World War <I>Kirsty Harris </I>5. "Emotional Nursing": Involvement, Engagement and Detachment in the Writings of First World War Nurses and VADs <I>Christine E. Hallett </I>6. A Sister's War: The Diaries of Alice Slythe <I>Janet Watson </I><B>Part 3: Nurse as Witness </B>7. Negotiating injury and masculinity in First World War Nurses' Writing <I>Carol Acton </I>8. The Theatre of Pain: Observing Mary Borden in <I>The Forbidden Zone</I> <I>Hazel Hutchison </I>9. Cubist Vision in Nursing Accounts <I>Margaret R. Higonnet </I>Afterword: Remembering the First World War Nurse in Britain and France <I>Alison S. Fell</P></I>
ISBN:
9781138952614 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.475
LC class:
D628
Language:
English
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical careWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- SourcesMilitary nursing -- History -- 20th centuryMilitary nursing -- History -- 20th century -- SourcesNurses -- History -- 20th centuryNurses -- History -- 20th century -- SourcesWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, FemaleWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Female -- SourcesWarfare and Defence
BRN:
300088