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Sister soldiers of the Great War : the nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
\"In Sisters Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada's first women soldiers--nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The nursing sisters' had a mandate to salvage as many sick and wounded men as possible for return to the frontlines. Nothing prepared them for poor living conditions, the scale of casualties, or the type of wounds they encountered, but their letters and diaries reveal that they were determined to soldier on under all circumstances while still \"living as well as possible.\"\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An Officer and a Lady
Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as \"officers and ladies.\".
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This Small Army of Women : Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War
\"With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War. This book tells the story of the nearly two thousand women from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered to \"do their bit\" overseas and at home. Well-educated and middle-class but largely untrained, VADs were excluded from Canadian military hospitals overseas (the realm of the professional nurse) but helped solve Britain's nursing deficit. Their struggle to secure a place at their brothers' bedsides reveals much about the tensions surrounding amateur and professional nurses and women's evolving role outside the home.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Place and practice in Canadian nursing history
No detailed description available for \"Place and Practice in Canadian Nursing History\".
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Margaret Macdonald : imperial daughter
\"During an era of separate spheres for men and women, Margaret Macdonald used her nurse's training to gain access to the military and a life of work, travel, and adventure. In the first biography of the head of Canadian military nursing during World War I, Susan Mann traces the life and work of an extraordinary woman from rural Nova Scotia whose sense of duty and ambition found an outlet in the imperialism of Great Britain and the U.S.\" \"In 1906, Macdonald was one of the first two nurses to receive a permanent appointment to the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She became matron-in-chief of Canada's overseas nursing service during World War I with the rank of major - the first such appointment for a woman in the British Empire - and also served as a nurse in the military during the Spanish-American and Boer Wars and in Panama during the construction of the canal.\" \"Mann breaks new ground in military history by weaving the threads of character, ideology, and opportunity into a portrait of Margaret Macdonald and her impact on the professionalization of military nursing.\"--Jacket.
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Easing pain on the Western Front : American nurses of the Great War and the birth of modern nursing practice
\"World War I is widely regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, this powerful study describes WWI nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of war-related injury-wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, \"shell shock,\" the Spanish Flu-and the interventions and technologies they deployed in treating them, including the Carrel-Dakin method of deep wound irrigation, the Balkan frame, and the Ohio Monovalve gas anesthesia machine.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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This Small Army of Women
This Small Army of Women restores a forgotten contingent of nursing volunteers to the historical record, showcasing their dedication amid the carnage of war and their sometimes uneasy relationship with nursing professionals.
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War-Torn Exchanges : The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes
\"Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to serve as nursing sisters in the Great War. Over the next four years, the two cared for each other through sickness and health, air raids and bombings, unrelenting work and adventurous leaves. This thoughtfully curated collection of their letters home paints a vivid account of nursing through the battles for Gallipoli, Passchendaele, and beyond. Mildred and Laura were remarkably forthright, revealing how they relied on friendship, humour, and professional ethics to carry on in the face of mismanagement, discrimination, deprivation, and trauma.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Canadian Forces Staff Ebola Workers’ Unit
Dr. Robert Fowler, a University of Toronto physician leading a World Health Organization Ebola team, toured Kerry Town in December 2014 and told CMAJ it will play a role for months to come. \"Sierra Leone continues to have the greatest burden of illness, so the support of the ... Canadian military to that effort is enormously important and Canada should be proud.\" - Miriam Shuchman MD, Toronto, Ont. The Canadian Forces doctors, nurses, physicians' assistants, medics and support staff arrived in Sierra Leone Dec. 20. Sub-Lieutenant Jaime Vickers, a nursing officer with Canadian Field Hospital 1, described the training as \" toplevel\" and \"extensive,\" yet, \"It was quite nerve-wracking the first time we entered the area containing Ebola patients.\"
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