Overview
- Provides an oral history of women serving in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam
- Draws on extensive interviews with eight former U.S. Army nurses
- Sheds light on their lived experience, highlighting the challenges of wartime, the extent of historical sexual abuse in the U.S. military, and the lasting impact on their lives
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History (PSOH)
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About this book
This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight women’s lives from their decision to become nurses, to surgical and evacuation hospitals in Vietnam, and then home to face the consequences of war on their personal and professional lives. It documents their lived experience in Vietnam and explores the memories and personal stories of nurses who treated injured American soldiers, Vietnamese civilians, and the enemy. Their voices reveal the physical and emotional challenges, trauma, contradictions, and lingering effects of war on their lives. Women in the U.S. Army in Vietnam feared the enemy but also sexual violence and harassment: the experiences this book documents also shed light on the extent of historical sexual abuse in the military.
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Book Title: Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War
Book Subtitle: Eight Women, One War
Authors: Janet D. Tanner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69617-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69616-0Published: 01 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69619-1Published: 02 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69617-7Published: 30 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 259
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Oral History, History of Military, US History, Women's Studies