Nurse memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany / Jerry Palmer.
2021
D640.A2 P35 2021eb
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Nurse memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany / Jerry Palmer.
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9783030828752 (electronic bk.)
3030828751 (electronic bk.)
3030828743
9783030828745
3030828751 (electronic bk.)
3030828743
9783030828745
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-82875-2 doi
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D640.A2 P35 2021eb
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940.475
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.
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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Table of 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.
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.