Women Doctors and Nurses of the Civil War

ISBN-10
1435832736
ISBN-13
9781435832732
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
112
Language
English
Published
2009-01-01
Publisher
Rosen Classroom
Author
Leslie Favor

Description

Women in the medical field provided comfort and sanity during the blood and horror on the battlefields. In this new book, students will learn about these extraordinary doctors and nurses such as Dorothea Dix, the Union armys Superintendent of Female Nurses; Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor of modern times; and Clara Barton, a nurse who later founded the American Red Cross. While lives were being lost on the front, these women helped save many.

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