Heroines of Mercy Street : the real nurses of the Civil War /
The nurses of the Civil War ushered in a new era for medicine in the midst of tremendous hardship. Toler tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia hotel turned wartime hospital. Women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney and Anne Reading saw casualties on a scale Ame...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The nurses of the Civil War ushered in a new era for medicine in the midst of tremendous hardship. Toler tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia hotel turned wartime hospital. Women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney and Anne Reading saw casualties on a scale Americans had never seen before, and working conditions were abysmal, but they met the challenges every step of the way. |
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| Item Description: | ""Companion to Mercy Street on PBS"--Cover." |
| Physical Description: | viii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0316392073 (hardcover) 9780316392075 (hardcover) |