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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793056803321

Autore

Bellafaire Judith <1954->

Titolo

Women doctors in war [[electronic resource] /] / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-60344-572-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; ; no. 128

Altri autori (Persone)

GrafMercedes

Disciplina

355.3/450820973

Soggetti

Women physicians - United States - History

Women and war - United States - History

United States Armed Forces Women History

United States Armed Forces Medical personnel History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243)and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Hen medics: women physicians in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War -- Necessity's handmaidens: the Army's women contract surgeons of World War I -- Finding a place in the sun: women Army doctors in World War II -- Join the Navy and see the world: women Navy doctors in World War II -- Out of place: women military doctors in Cold War America -- On the edge of equality: contemporary women military physicians -- Epilogue.