Author: Elizabeth M. Norman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812213171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The story of fifty military nurses who served in Vietnam.
Author: Elizabeth M. Norman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812213171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The story of fifty military nurses who served in Vietnam.
Author: Kara Dixon Vuic
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801893917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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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: Dan Freedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Nine army nurses who served in Vietnam describe their experiences and discuss how the war affected their lives
Author: Patricia Rushton
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Eighteen nurses who served in the United States military nurse corps during the Vietnam War present their personal accounts in this book. They represent all military branches and both genders. They served in the theater of combat, in the United States, and in countries allied with the U.S. They served in front line hospitals, hospital ships, large medical centers and small clinics. They speak of caring for casualties during a conflict filled with controversy—and of patriotism, of the nursing profession, of travel and the adventure of friendship and love.
Author: Lou Eisenbrandt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941165683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Lynda Van Devanter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Lynda Van Devanter tells of joining the Army as a nurse in 1969 and working for a year in Vietnam, and of the effects of the experience on her life.
Author: Bernadette J. Harrod RN
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491773944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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It was 1969 and the war in Vietnam was at its height. At the time, author Bernadette J. Harrod was twenty-four years old and a full-fledged operating room nurse. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy, she volunteered her services and became a member of the Army Nurse Corps stationed on the front lines at Phu Bai, Vietnam, a forward base camp in the demilitarized zone. In Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969, she shares her story of what nursing was like in a combat zone, standing covered in mud and blood, sweat and tears, serving her country in a war-torn jungle far away from home. Harrod describes working twelve-hour days, six days a weekmore when there was a pushoperating on wounded soldiers who had suffered massive injuries. Saving life and limb was the prime mission of the operating room nurses. Harrod tells how she was ill prepared to handle the horror all around her. After fourteen months in a blood bath of hell, now considered a combat veteran, she was sent home. With poetry and letters written to home included, Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969, offers a firsthand look at the war and its aftereffects from the perspective of both a nurse and a woman caught in the trauma of war.
Author: Janet D. Tanner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783030696184
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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: Annabelle Brayley
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143785798
Category : Military camps
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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"From the bestselling author of Bush Nursesand Nurses of the Outbackcomes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War. Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much harder. When Australia joined the Vietnam War, civilian and military nurses were there to save lives and comfort the wounded. With spirit and good humour, they worked hard and held strong, even though most of them were completely unprepared for the war before they landed in the middle of it. Working incredibly long hours and surrounded by chaos and turmoil, these brave nurses and medics were integral to our war effort. These fifteen stories show a side to the Vietnam War that has received little recognition but played an important part in shaping Australia's presence in the war. From flying with critically wounded Australian soldiers out of turbulent war zones, to being held at gunpoint, the compassion, courage and grace under fire in Our Vietnam Nurses will inspire and astound."
Author: Patricia Rushton
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476690971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This second volume of accounts by nurses who served with U.S. forces in Vietnam presents recollections of 17 women who cared for American casualties during a controversial war. They faced overwhelming trauma, conflicting emotions and isolation while caring for wounded at frontline hospitals, aboard ships and in medical centers. Representing the army and navy, their experiences of struggle, friendship and love formed their professional and personal lives.
