| Description |
1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine |
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Hospitals and Nursing Before the Great War -- 3. Nurses and the Military Medical Services in the Great War -- 4. Women and War Work (1): Debates and Issues -- 5. Women and War Work (2): Nursing -- 6. The Nurse Memoirs (1) -- 7. The Nurse Memoirs (2) -- 8. The Nurse Memoirs (3): Nurse Memoirs in Nazi Germany -- 9. The Rhetorical Strategies of Nurse Memoirs -- 10. After the War: Nursing Reform and Collective Memory -- 11. Conclusion |
| Summary |
Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other womens writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoricexamining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about womens position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Great Britain. Army -- Nurses
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France. Armée -- Nurses
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Germany. Heer -- Nurses
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France. Armée fast |
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Germany. Heer fast |
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Great Britain. Army fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, French
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, German
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Armed Forces -- Nurses
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Medical care
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Nurses
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030828752 |
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3030828751 |
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