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World War I is 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, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.
The former managing director of The Analytic Press, Inc., Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D., is Interdisciplinary Research Faculty, DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Epiphanies2. Blood3. Total Care4. Poison Gas5. Shell Shock6. Plague7. OnwardChapter NotesBibliographyIndex
“Paul E. Stepansky’s Easing Pain on the Western Front is essential to understanding the contributions of the Great War’s American nursing women to revolutionary advances in medicine and the creation of a successful military evacuation system for the wounded. . . Reading the book is revelatory with regard to Great War hands-on nursing, [and] Stepansky’s book should be a supplementary textbook in every college’s nursing curriculum, to help students understand their historical roots. . . . He comments with enormous empathy and admiration on the reality that these American women never signed up and received a job description. The intelligence, courage, and strength of all these women is almost unbelievable.”—Rose Ethel Althaus Meza, Journal of Military History
