This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of multiple nursing roles during the wars, it considers the responsiveness of nursing work, as crisis scenarios gave rise to improvisation and the sometimes quite dramatic breaking of practice boundaries. The originality of the text lies not only in the breadth of wartime practices considered, but also the international scope of both the contributors and the nurses they consider. It will therefore appeal to academics and students in the history of nursing and war, nursing work and the history of medicine and war from across the globe.

Jane Brooks is a Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Manchester and Deputy Director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and MidwiferyChristine Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the University of Manchester

Introduction: The practice of nursing and the exigencies of war Jane Brooks and Christine E HallettPart I: Gentlemens Wars1. Class, gender and professional expertise: British military nursing in the Crimean War Carol Helmstadter2. American Nightingales: The influence of Florence Nightingale on Southern nurses during the American Civil War Barbara Maling3. Traversing the veldt with Tommy Atkins: The clinical challenges of nursing typhoid patients during the Second Anglo-Boer War (18991902) Charlotte DalePart II: Industrial War4. This fiendish mode of warfare: Nursing the victims of gas poisoning in the First World War Christine E Hallett5. Health, healing and harmony: Invalid cookery and feeding by Australian nurses in the Middle East in World War I Kirsty Harris 6. Eyewitnesses to revolution: Canadian military nurses at Petrograd, 191517 Cynthia Toman7. The impact of the First World War on asylum and voluntary hospital nurses work and health Deborah PalmerPart III: Technological Warfare8. Blood and guts: Nursing with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 193639 Angela Jackson9. Those maggots did a wonderful job: The nurses role in wound management in civilian hospitals during the Second World War David Justham10. The nurse stoops down for me: Nursing the liberated persons at Bergen-Belsen Jane Brooks11. The Norwegian Mobile Army Surgical Hospital: Nursing at the front Jan-Thore Lockertsen, Ashild Fause, Christine E Hallett& Jane Brooks 12. Moving forward: Australian flight nurses in the Korean War Maxine Dahl Bibliography Index