Sister Soldiers of the Great War
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3213-7 (ISBN)
- Titel z.Zt. nicht lieferbar
- Versandkostenfrei
- Auch auf Rechnung
- Artikel merken
“I am on night duty ... on what is supposed to be the ‘hopeless ward’ so you can imagine, or try to, just what I am doing. I know you cannot really have the faintest idea ...”
In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. These experienced professional nurses left their friends, families, and jobs to enlist in the army. Granted relative rank and equal pay to men, they had a mandate to salvage as many sick and wounded men as possible for return to the front lines. Nothing prepared them for poor living conditions, the scale of casualties, or the type of wounds they encountered, but their letters and diaries reveal that they were determined to soldier on under all circumstances while still “living as well as possible.”
During her tenure at the University of Ottawa, Cynthia Toman taught in the School of Nursing with a cross-appointment to the Department of History, where she served as director of the Nursing History Research Unit. Her awards include the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), the Governor General’s Gold Medal (2003), the American Association for the History of Nursing’s prestigious Teresa E. Christy Distinguished Writing Award (2004), and the Canadian Historical Association’s Hilda B. Neatby Award (2008). She is the author of An Officer and a Lady: Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War and co-editor (with Jayne Elliot and Meryn Stuart) of Place and Practice in Canadian Nursing History.
Introduction
1 The Great Machine of Healing
2 The Cast of Characters
3 Soldiering On under All Conditions
4 Soldiering On with Medical and Surgical Work
5 Social Sisters: “Living as Well as Possible”
6 Contemplating the Costs of War
Epilogue
Appendices
Notes; Bibliography; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.05.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Canadian Military History |
| Zusatzinfo | 31 photos, 2 maps, 6 tables |
| Verlagsort | Vancouver |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7748-3213-4 / 0774832134 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-3213-7 / 9780774832137 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich
