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Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. A succinct narrative of its works and purposes.
A study that challenges established scholarship on the history of women's public activism.
This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace.
Anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary service of the war.
Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Call and Response -- 1 Understanding Civil War Medicine -- 2 Women, War, and Medicine -- 3 Infectious Disease in the Civil War -- 4 Connecting Home to Hospital and Camp: The Work of the USSC -- 5 The Sanitary Commission and Its Critics -- 6 The Union's General Hospital -- 7 Medicine for a New Nation -- 8 Confederate Medicine: Disease, Wounds, and Shortages -- 9 Mitigating the Horrors of War -- 10 A Public Health Legacy -- 11 Medicine in Postwar America -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.