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Author: Mary T. Sarnecky
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999-11
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780812235029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history of the corps since its founding, in 1901. "A work essential to any study of the corps or military medicine."—Choice
Author: Kara Dixon Vuic
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0801893917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service. Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 women nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight.
Author: Charissa J. Threat
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0252097246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward social justice. Threat tells how progressive elements in the campaigns did indeed break down barriers in both military and civilian nursing. At the same time, she follows conservative threads to portray how some of the women who succeeded as agents of change became defenders of exclusionary practices when men sought military nursing careers. The ironic result was a struggle that simultaneously confronted and reaffirmed the social hierarchies that nurtured discrimination.
Author: Janet D. Tanner
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-04-30
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 3030696170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight women’s lives from their decision to become nurses, to surgical and evacuation hospitals in Vietnam, and then home to face the consequences of war on their personal and professional lives. It documents their lived experience in Vietnam and explores the memories and personal stories of nurses who treated injured American soldiers, Vietnamese civilians, and the enemy. Their voices reveal the physical and emotional challenges, trauma, contradictions, and lingering effects of war on their lives. Women in the U.S. Army in Vietnam feared the enemy but also sexual violence and harassment: the experiences this book documents also shed light on the extent of historical sexual abuse in the military.
Author: Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2003-11-28
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813190792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts the history of the Army Nurse Corps, whose members served with but not in the armed forces, and describes the experiences of nurses in every theater of World War II, including the special situation faced by African American nurses.
Author: United States. Army Medical Service
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 12
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Army Nurse Corps
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary T. Sarnecky
Publisher: Department of the Army
Published: 2010-04-27
Total Pages: 618
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on an organization, the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, which the author has been privileged to be affiliated with – in one way or another – for the greatest part of her adult life. As an active duty officer, the author had first-hand knowledge about the Army Nurse Corps inner workings and spent the last years of her Army career (from 1992) researching and writing the Corps history. One of her goals in researching and writing this history was to intrigue and provide a sense of gratification for the reader. After the conclusion of the Vietnam War, several wide-ranging and significant changes exerted myriad effects on the Army Nurse Corps. The most influential of these phenomena included the dismantling of the Selective Service System, the reorganization of the Army, the launch of the Health Services Command (HSC), the opening of the Academy of Health Sciences, the transformation of the Office of the Army Surgeon General, the inauguration of improvements in the Army Reserve and National Guard, and the evolution in the roles and status of women.
