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Sister Soldiers of the Great War - Cynthia Toman

Sister Soldiers of the Great War

The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps

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Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2016
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3213-7 (ISBN)
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Award-winning author Cynthia Toman brings to life the experiences of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who served during the First World War.
“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
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
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