Beyond Nightingale : nursing on the Crimean War battlefields /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helmstadter, Carol (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Series:Nursing history and humanities.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The wider context of military nursing in the Crimean war
  • Part 1: Government-imposed nursing
  • British nursing at the beginning of the Crimean war
  • Nightingale's team of nurses
  • Lady nurses: myth and reality
  • Part II: religious nursing
  • Mother Francis Bridgman and her Sisters of Mercy
  • The other British religious sisters
  • The daughters of charity of St. Vincent de Paul
  • The financial costs of war
  • Part III: doctor-directed nursing
  • Turkish military hospitals: an absence of trained nurses and basic resources
  • The naval hospital at Therapia
  • The civilian hospitals
  • Russian nursing: Pirogov and the Grand Duchess
  • The sister take over
  • The reorganization of the community
  • Conclusion: transcending the limitations of gender