In the Company of Nurses: The History of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great War

ISBN-13: 9780748679119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 240 str.

Yvonne McEwen

Opis

The untold story of the British Army Nursing Service during The Great War
Constructed from unpublished official and unofficial documents, letters and diaries of the time, this important volume tells the much-neglected story of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) during the First World War.
Yvonne McEwen's ground-breaking original research moves away from the long-held, uncritical, and overly-romanticised views of First World War nursing and addresses the professional, personal and political consequences that arose for nurses in the pivotal years from 1914 to 1918. This centenary volume is a vital contribution to the historiography of British military care-giving throughout this period and to the history of the Great War more generally.
Key Features:
Examines the humanitarian and legal challenges of casualty care
Highlights the management complexities of care-giving for the military
Discusses the physical and psychological health of nurses on active service
Lists the deaths within the ranks of the service
Examines wartime professional development, the Nurse Registration Bill, and equal rights for women

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Book I: In the Lap of The Gods; 1. Magic, Miracles and Myth – The Genesis of Military Nursing; Book II: The Wrath of the Gods; 2. Did the Conflict Breed Conflict? The Politics of Caregiving 1914; 3. Lies, ‘Limelighters’ and Nursing in the Land of Troy; 4. The Scandal of Battles and a Battle with Scandals; 5. Casualties, Consolidation, and Cameos of War; Book III: In the House of the Gods; 6. - Daughter of Arête; Appendix 1; Nurses Awarded the Military Medal; Appendix 2: Nurses’ Disabilities and Pensionable Years; Appendix 3: Nursing Deaths; Bibliography; Index