San Antonio College Library

Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology. They came to be seen as self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatant and doctors' handmaidens, rather than being appreciated as trained...

"Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War. After the war, she dedicated herself to promoting public health. She became one of history's most famous invalids, following a collapse at the age of thirty-seven which left her bedridden for more than ten years." "By carefully reconstructing the chronology of events that led to her breakdown, Hugh Small has produced a new and startling...

Illuminating one of the unsung heroes of the Crimean War, the author presents the remarkable life of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican woman who fought cholera and yellow fever in the Crimea and later founded the British Hotel.

A galvanizing narrative of the wartime role played by U.S. Army nurses--from the invasion of North Africa to the bloody Italian campaign to the decisive battles in France and the Rhineland. More than 59,000 nurses volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps alone: 217 lost their lives (16 by enemy action), and more than 1,600 were decorated for meritorious service and bravery under fire. But their stories have rarely been heard. Now, drawing...

"Eighteen nurses who served in the United States military nurse corps present their personal accounts in this book. They represent all military branches and both genders. They speak of patriotism, belief in a greater power, the gaining of knowledge about the nursing profession and themselves, of persecution and discrimination, of travel and the adventure of friendship and love"--Provided by publisher.

This book examines the role female nurses in the South played during the Civil War in raising army and civilian morale and reducing mortality rates.

"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during the Civil War. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront." "Schultz...