Nurses on the front line : when disaster strikes, 1878-2010 /
This book examines how nurses have responded to natural and man-made disasters in the in the US and Canada over the course of the previous and current centuries. It identifies the care delivered during various disasters; explicates how nurses at the local level intersected with the American Red Cros...
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Table of Contents:
- The 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi: "for God's sake, send us some nurses and doctors" / Deanne Stephens Nuwer
- The 1900 Galveston hurricane: "unspeakable calamity" / Barbra Mann Wall
- The San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1906: "a lifetime of experience" / Barbra Mann Wall and Marie E. Kelly
- The Monongah mine disaster, December 1907: a "roar like a thousand Niagras" / John C. Kirchgessner
- Nurses' response across geographic boundaries in the Halifax disaster, December 6, 1917: border crossings / Deborah A. Sampson
- The Boston Instructive District Nurses Association and the 1918 influenza epidemic: "intelligent cooperation" / Arlene W. Keeling
- The 1921 Tulsa race riot and the "angels of mercy" / Barbra Mann Wall
- The New London, Texas, school explosion, 1937: "unparalleled disaster" / Barbra Mann Wall
- The 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire: out of the ashes / Patricia A. Connor Ballard
- The great Alaska earthquake of 1964: lessons in leadership / Barbra Mann Wall
- Gendered notions of expertise and bravery: New York City 2001 / Julie A. Fairman and Jonathan Gilbride
- A tale of two shelters: a Katrina story, 2005 / Teresa M. O'Neill and Patricia M. Prechter
- Striving for the "new normal": the aftermath of international disasters / Audrey Snyder, Fusun Terzioglu, and Arlene W. Keeling.