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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.
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.
They speak of patriotism, belief in a greater power, the gaining of
knowledge about the nursing profession and about themselves, of
persecution and discrimination, of travel and the adventure of
friendship and love.
Since the pioneering work of nineteenth-century nurses such as
Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, professional
nurses have been involved in caring for the sick and wounded in
combat situations. This book contains the accounts of 14 nurses who
served in the U.S. military nurse corps during the Persian Gulf and
Iraq wars. These men and women describe how they found themselves
serving during wartime, the soldiers they cared for, the
professionals they worked with and the impact they made in their
patients' lives. These varied accounts attest to the tremendous
impact this profession has on the lives of individual soldiers and
the health of armies at large.
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