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Image one: E-book titled Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (2017) - synopsis: Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.
Image two: E-book titled Nurse Writers of the Great War (2016) - synopsis: The First World War was the first “total war.” Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men, and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses to alleviate their suffering. Some were fully-trained professionals; others had minimal preparation, and served as volunteer-nurses. Nurse Writers of the Great War examines these nurses’ memoirs and explores the insights they offer into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare. The book combines close biographical research with textual analysis, in order to offer an understanding of both nurses’ wartime experiences and the ways in which their lives and backgrounds contributed to the style and content of their writing.
