No man's land : the trailblazing women who ran Britain's most extraordinary military hospital during World War I
2020
Book
"The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments and lively atmosphere. In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds."-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781541672727
- 1541672720
Edition: First US edition.
Description: 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Other Title: Trailblazing women who ran Britain's most extraordinary military hospital during World War I
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN: 2019041778
Control Number: 2878240
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2020.Subjects:
- Anderson, Louisa Garrett, 1873-1943.
- Covent Garden (London, England) -- History -- 20th century.
- Endell Street Military Hospital -- History.
- Murray, Flora.
- Suffragists -- England -- Biography.
- Women in medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Women surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Women's Hospital Corps -- History.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals -- Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Women.
Genre: Biographies.