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

Paul E Stepansky

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Description: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, this study 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 the Spanish-American War and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies newly employed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice. To get started finding Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2010

ISBN: 1476680019

Description: 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, this study 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 the Spanish-American War and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies newly employed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice. To get started finding Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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