This timely volume describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of cooperation and conflict in the disaster responses regarding the mobilization of individuals across national borders and continents. It examines how partnerships developed, their implications for policy, and how we can use lessons learned to improve care in the future.
The book addresses such questions as: How did local, regional, and national communities mobilize for emergency care? What was the role of local nurses in emergency care after disasters? What was the role of the national or international Red Cross, local and federal governments, physicians, nurses, and other first responders? What was the impact of social attitudes and issues of race, class, and gender on the ways nurses and other health care professionals reacted to the disasters? How did unpreparedness for the type or scope of the disaster affect the response? The book will be of value to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate students in nursing, social work, history, health policy, women’s studies, public health, and urban studies.
KEY FEATURES:
- Addresses the role of nurses in di saster response
- Highlights nurses’ roles in di sasters that occurred in the context of World War II—heretofore unaddressed in the interest of political correctness
- Discusses policy implications of the different disasters
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Contents
Contributors
Preface
Prelude Barbra Mann Wall
1. Typhoid Fever Epidemic, 1885 to 1887, Tasmania, Australia
Madonna Grehan
2. The 1908 Italian Earthquake
Anna La Torre
3. The 1913 Flood in Ohio (USA)
Janna Dieckmann
4. The Alaskan Influenza Epidemic, 1918 to 1919
Maria Gilson De Valpine and Arlene W. Keeling
5. The Bombing Blitz of London and Manchester, England, 1940 to 1944
Jane Brooks
6. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941
Gwyneth Rhiannon Milbrath
7. The Nuclear Catastrophe in Hiroshima, Japan, August 1945
Ryoko Ohara, Madonna Grehan, Sioban Nelson, and Trudy Rudge
8. The Bar Harbor Fire of 1947, Bar Harbor, Maine (USA)
Barbara Maling
9. The SARS Pandemic in Toronto, Canada, 2003
Sioban Nelson and Adrienne Byng
10. Hurricane Sandy, October 2012, New York City (USA)
Barbra Mann Wall, Victoria La Maina, and Emma Mac Allister
Conclusion
Arlene W. Keeling, Emma Mac Allister, and Barbra Mann Wall
Index
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Arlene W. Keeling, Ph D, RN, FAAN, is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, and associate director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.
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