She Who Is Like a Mare: Poems of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Servic

ISBN-10: 1933964626
ISBN-13: 9781933964621
Category: Nurses
Pages: 96
Language: English
Published: 2012-09-24
Author: Karen Kotrba

Description

Founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge, the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) brought much needed professional health care to mountain families of Eastern Kentucky. The FNS nurses, trained as midwives, provided public health services and trauma care as needed. She who is like a mare : poems of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service uses historical research and speculative imaginings to create the voices and tell the stories of the nurses and their patients. Skillfully rendered dramatic monologues document the remarkable history of the Frontier Nursing Service in eastern Kentucky in the early twentieth century. Through the imagined voices of the founder, Mary Breckinridge, and the nurse-midwives she trained to travel the back roads of Kentucky on horseback, Kotrba brings a whole community to life. With a sure command of the multiple tones and mixed dictions of the region, she gives voice to a wide range of characters.

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