| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 291 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
The 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi: "for God's sake, send us some nurses and doctors" / Deanne Stephens Nuwer -- The 1900 Galveston hurricane: "unspeakable calamity" / Barbra Mann Wall -- The San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1906: "a lifetime of experience" / Barbra Mann Wall and Marie E. Kelly -- The Monongah mine disaster, December 1907: a "roar like a thousand Niagras" / John C. Kirchgessner -- Nurses' response across geographic boundaries in the Halifax disaster, December 6, 1917: border crossings / Deborah A. Sampson -- The Boston Instructive District Nurses Association and the 1918 influenza epidemic: "intelligent cooperation" / Arlene W. Keeling -- The 1921 Tulsa race riot and the "angels of mercy" / Barbra Mann Wall -- The New London, Texas, school explosion, 1937: "unparalleled disaster" / Barbra Mann Wall -- The 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire: out of the ashes / Patricia A. Connor Ballard -- The great Alaska earthquake of 1964: lessons in leadership / Barbra Mann Wall -- Gendered notions of expertise and bravery: New York City 2001 / Julie A. Fairman and Jonathan Gilbride -- A tale of two shelters: a Katrina story, 2005 / Teresa M. O'Neill and Patricia M. Prechter -- Striving for the "new normal": the aftermath of international disasters / Audrey Snyder, Fusun Terzioglu, and Arlene W. Keeling |
| Summary |
This book examines how nurses have responded to natural and man-made disasters in the in the US and Canada over the course of the previous and current centuries. It identifies the care delivered during various disasters; explicates how nurses at the local level intersected with the American Red Cross (ARC), American Nurses Association (ANA), the U.S. Public Health Service, and other federal/state organizations; describes how this intersection changed over time; and analyzes how issues of race, class, and gender influenced the ways nurses and other health care professionals responded to disaste |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Disaster nursing -- United States -- History
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Disasters -- history
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Nurse's Role -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Medical & Surgical.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Reference.
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Disaster nursing
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wall, Barbra Mann.
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Keeling, Arlene Wynbeek, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9780826105202 |
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0826105203 |
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1282764438 |
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9781282764439 |
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