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Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth
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Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice Paperback - 2019

by Paul E. Stepansky


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World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.

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  • Title Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice
  • Author Paul E. Stepansky
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 244
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
  • Date 2019-12-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781476680019 / 1476680019
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.10 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Participation, Female, Military nursing - Canada - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019051427
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.475

About the author

The former managing director of The Analytic Press, Inc., Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D., is Interdisciplinary Research Faculty, DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College.
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