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020 _a9781784996949
020 _z1784996947
035 _a(OCoLC)981900188
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aHallett, Christine E.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNurse Writers of the Great War /
_cChristine E. Hallett.
264 1 _aManchester :
_bManchester University Press,
_c2016.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2017
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a1 online resource (296 pages):
_bblack and white illustrations (portraits)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aNursing history and humanities
505 0 _aCover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I Independent ladies; 1 Heroines in Belgium and Serbia; Introduction: plucky nurses; The duchess-directrice: Millicent Sutherland and her ambulance; Escaping the German advance: a war nurse's diary; Nurse fighters on the Serbian Front; A quest too far: the death of Sarah Macnaughtan; Conclusion: heroines on Western and Eastern Fronts; Notes; 2 Le petit paradis des blesses; Introduction: the little paradise.
505 0 _aNarratives of L'Hôpital Chirurgical Mobile No. 1Mary Borden's Forbidden Zone; Agnes Warner: devoted professional; Conclusion: the 'Directrice' and the head nurse; Notes; 3 The hell at the heart of paradise; Introduction: more writings from L'Hôpital Chirurgical Mobile No. 1; War's backwash; Maud Mortimer: witnessing nursing; Conclusion: the power of interpretation; Notes; Part II Professional women; 4 In France with the British Expeditionary Force; Introduction: the power of professional nursing; The quintessential British nurse: Kate Luard; Alice Fitzgerald: entrapped nurse.
505 0 _aConclusion: professional nurses in military hospitalsNotes; 5 American nurses in Europe; Introduction: American nurses and the war in Europe; Julia Stimson's 'splendid women'; Pioneer nurse: the adventures of Helen Dore Boylston; Conclusion: far-off lands and strange adventures; Notes; 6 The war nurse as free agent; Introduction: the rewards of professional nursing; Heroine of Pervyse: the adventures of Elsie Knocker; Violetta Thurstan: intrepid, travelling nurse; Conclusion: intrepid nurses; Notes; Part III Volunteer girls; 7 American young women at war; Introduction: American women at war.
505 0 _aDisillusionment and despair: meeting the realities of warThe mystery of War Nurse; Conclusion: the truth about the war; Notes; 8 The British 'VAD'; Introduction: becoming a VAD; Realising war's realities; Vera Brittain's Testament; Enid Bagnold: military medicine as part of the 'war machine'; Needed by the country: Irene Rathbone's 'novel'; Conclusion: the VAD as witness; Notes; 9 Epic romance on Western and Eastern Fronts; Introduction: the romance of volunteer work; Ordeals on the Western Front; 'Wide open world': the adventures of Florence Farmborough.
505 0 _aBroken spell: war and revolution in the writings of Mary BritnievaConclusion: 'ordeal' and 'apotheosis'; Notes; Conclusion; Remembering and memorialising; Dutiful daughters of the allied cause; Intrepid travelling nurses; Heretical nurses; Autonomy and agency; The truth about the war; Notes; Bibliography; Primary sources; Archives consulted; Articles and columns published anonymously in the British Journal of Nursing; Books and journal articles published between 1890 and 1946; Books and journal articles published between 1947 and 2014; Theses and dissertations; Index.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 8 _aExamining the experiences of First World War nurses through their own writings, this book offers fresh insights into the reality of industrial warfare.
546 _aEnglish.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aNurses' writings.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01041725
650 7 _aMilitary nursing.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01021338
650 7 _aMedical care.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01013753
650 7 _aAutobiography.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00822597
650 7 _aMEDICAL
_xNursing
_xResearch & Theory.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aNursing research & theory.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aNursing.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aNursing research and theory.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aNursing and ancillary services.
_2bicssc
650 7 _aMedicine.
_2bicssc
650 7 _anurses.
_2aat
650 7 _aautobiography (genre)
_2aat
650 6 _aMedecine
_xHistoire
_y20e siecle.
650 6 _aInfirmieres.
650 6 _aAutobiographie.
650 6 _aAutobiographie
_xHistoire.
650 6 _aÉcrits d'infirmieres.
650 6 _aSoins infirmiers militaires.
650 6 _aGuerre mondiale, 1914-1918
_xSoins medicaux.
650 2 _aMilitary Nursing
650 2 _aHistory, 20th Century
650 2 _aNurses
650 2 _aWorld War I
650 2 _aAutobiographies as Topic
650 2 _aMilitary Nursing
_xhistory
650 0 _aAutobiography.
650 0 _aAutobiography
_xHistory.
650 0 _aNurses' writings.
650 0 _aMilitary nursing.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xMedical care.
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/51499/
999 _c231912
_d231911