Beyond Nightingale : nursing on the Crimean War battlefields / Carol Helmstadter.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

xix, 335 pages : black and white maps ; 23 cm.

Introduction -- The wider context of military nursing in the Crimean war -- Part 1: Government-imposed nursing -- British nursing at the beginning of the Crimean war -- Nightingale's team of nurses -- Lady nurses: myth and reality -- Part II: religious nursing -- Mother Francis Bridgman and her Sisters of Mercy -- The other British religious sisters -- The daughters of charity of St. Vincent de Paul -- The financial costs of war -- Part III: doctor-directed nursing -- Turkish military hospitals: an absence of trained nurses and basic resources -- The naval hospital at Therapia -- The civilian hospitals -- Russian nursing: Pirogov and the Grand Duchess -- The sister take over -- The reorganization of the community -- Conclusion: transcending the limitations of gender.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-325) and index.