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Author McEwen, Yvonne, author

Title In the company of nurses : the history of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great War / Yvonne McEwen
Published Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 237 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- BOOK I In the Lap of the Gods -- 1 Magic, Miracles and Myth: The Genesis of Military Nursing -- BOOK II The Wrath of the Gods -- 2 Did the Conflict Breed Conflict? The Politics of Care- giving, 1914 -- 3 Lies, 'Limelighters' and Nursing in the Land of Troy -- 4 The Scandal of Battles and a Battle with Scandals -- 5 Casualties, Consolidation and Cameos of War -- 6 Daughters of Arête -- Appendix 1 Nurses Awarded the Military Medal -- Appendix 2 Nurses' Disabilities and Pensionable Years -- Appendix 3 Nursing Deaths -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Constructed from unpublished official and unofficial documents, letters and diaries of the time, this important volume tells the much-neglected story of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) during the First World War. Addresses the professional, personal and political consequences that arose for nurses in the pivotal years from 1914 to 1918.--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index
Notes English
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Subject Great Britain. Army. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain Army. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Great Britain. Army. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps fast
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Great Britain
Nurses -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Military nursing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Military Nursing -- history
World War I
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Medical care
Military nursing
Nurses
Sanitätsdienst
Krankenschwester
Weltkrieg
Första världskriget 1914-1918.
Krigssjukvård.
Sjuksköterskor.
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748679126
074867912X
Other Titles History of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great War