ADVENTURES OF AN ARMY NURSE
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE OF NURSING AND THE EXIGENCIES OF WAR PART I GENTLEMEN’S WARS CLASS, GENDER AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE: BRITISH MILITARY NURSING IN THE CRIMEAN WAR AMERICAN NIGHTINGALES: THE INFLUENCE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON SOUTHERN NURSES DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BARBARA MALING TRAVERSING THE VELDT WITH ‘TOMMY ATKINS’: THE CLINICAL CHALLENGES OF NURSING TYPHOID PATIENTS DURING THE SECOND ANGLO-BOER WAR (1899–1902) PART II INDUSTRIAL WAR ‘THIS FIENDISH MODE OF WARFARE’: NURSING THE VICTIMS OF GAS POISONING IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR CONTENTS HEALTH, HEALING AND HARMONY: INVALID COOKERY AND FEEDING BY AUSTRALIAN NURSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 7 THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON ASYLUM AND VOLUNTARY HOSPITAL NURSES’ WORK AND HEALTH PART III TECHNOLOGICAL WARFARE 9 ‘THOSE MAGGOTS – THEY DID A WONDERFUL JOB’: THE NURSES’ ROLE IN WOUND MANAGEMENT IN CIVILIAN HOSPITALS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR ‘THE NURSE STOOPS DOWN … FOR ME’: NURSING THE LIBERATED PERSONS AT BERGEN-BELSEN THE NORWEGIAN MOBILE ARMY SURGICAL HOSPITAL: NURSING AT THE FRONT MOVING FORWARD: AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT NURSES IN THE KOREAN WAR