The Role Of Female Doctors And Nurses In The Civil War
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| Author | : Hallie Murray |
| Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2019-12-15 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1502655454 |
The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history, and although many were uncomfortable with the idea of women interacting with soldiers, there simply weren't enough male doctors to meet the needs of the wounded. Women in both the Union and the Confederacy helped fill that need, and in the doing so, changed the course of American medical history. This book tells the story of many of these brave women, including Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the mentally ill and the superintendent of army nurses for the Union, and Clara Barton, a self-taught nurse who founded the Red Cross.
| Author | : Jane E. Schultz |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2005-12-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807864153 |
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest 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 uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
| Author | : Libra Rose Hilde |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813932122 |
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.
| Author | : Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 1865 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Louisa May Alcott |
| Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
| Total Pages | : 81 |
| Release | : 2024-10-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Step into the heart of the Civil War era with Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches. This poignant collection of letters offers a firsthand account of life in a Union hospital, filled with the courage, suffering, and humanity of soldiers and nurses alike. Alcott's vivid descriptions and personal reflections immerse you in a world of war, illness, and compassion. Through her eyes, you'll witness the strength of the human spirit even in the darkest of times.But here's the question that will challenge your perspective: How would you endure the trials of war, if you were caught between the suffering of others and the desire to help? What does Alcott's account teach us about resilience in the face of adversity? As you read, you'll encounter the raw emotions and unwavering determination of both nurses and soldiers. Alcott’s intimate portrayal of their struggles offers a window into a world shaped by conflict, yet filled with hope and kindness. Are you ready to explore the true cost of war through the eyes of one who lived it?Immerse yourself in these unforgettable sketches, where Alcott's powerful words bring history to life. Her personal experiences in the hospital offer a unique glimpse into the Civil War and the unspoken courage of those who served. This is more than a memoir—it's a call to honor the resilience of the human spirit. Purchase Hospital Sketches now, and step into a world where compassion triumphs over fear.Don't miss the chance to experience Louisa May Alcott’s powerful reflections on war and humanity. Buy Hospital Sketches today and witness history through the eyes of one of its most insightful chroniclers.
| Author | : Louisa May Alcott |
| Publisher | : Facsimiles-Garl |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.
| Author | : Lynn McDonald |
| Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
| Total Pages | : 1098 |
| Release | : 2011-02-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1554587476 |
Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.
| Author | : Theresa Kaminski |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2020-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1493036106 |
“I will always be somebody.” This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in recognition of the incomparable medical service Walker rendered during the Civil War. Yet few people today know anything about the woman so well-known--even notorious--in her own lifetime. Kaminski shares a different way of looking at the Civil War, through the eyes of a woman confident she could make a contribution equal to that of any man. This part of the story takes readers into the political cauldron of the nation’s capital in wartime, where Walker was a familiar if notorious figure. Mary Walker’s relentless pursuit of gender and racial equality is key to understanding her commitment to a Union victory in the Civil War. Her role in the women’s suffrage movement became controversial and the US Army stripped Walker of her medal, only to have the medal reinstated in 1977.
| Author | : Nancy Ann Sahli |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1056 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Physicians |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Kate Clarke Lemay |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-03-26 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0691191174 |
"Published to accompany the exhibition Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (March 1, 2019-January 5, 2020)"--Colophon.
