Biographies: Nurses

Narrative of the wartime role played by U.S. Army nurses--from the invasion of North Africa to the bloody Italian campaign to the decisive battles in France and the Rhineland.

Read the stories of some of the 5,000+ women who served the Union cause during the Civil War as army nurses, including Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix.

Contains biographies of 132 nursing leaders. This volume records the movement of nursing and of women into the American (and Canadian) mainstream and serves as a key to documenting the changes in attitude toward professional women during the last part of the twentieth century.

In celebrating the history of the black nursing experience, the author relates the role model-worthy biographies of three Nursing Hall of Fame women: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Martha Minerva Franklin, and Adah Belle Samuels Thoms.