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Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War

Vuic, Kara Dixon

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Edition:	1st
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:	0-8018-9713-0 (0801897130)
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-9713-9 (9780801897139)
Binding:	E E Book + ProQuest Ebook Central
Copyright:	2010
Publish Date:	01/10
Weight:	0.00 Lbs.
Carton Quantity:	24
Subject Class:	N-R (Nursing Research and Issues)
Return Policy:	Non-Returnable.

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Vivid personal accounts abound in historian Kara Dixon Vuic's compelling look at the experiences of army nurses in the Vietnam War. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service. Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 women nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight. Officer, Nurse, Woman brings to light the nearly forgotten contributions of brave nurses who risked their lives to bring medical care to soldiers during a terrible -- and divisive -- war.

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