Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and Letters from Four Years of Civil War Nursing (New Perspectives on the Civil War Era) - Tapa blanda

 
9780820375342: Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and Letters from Four Years of Civil War Nursing (New Perspectives on the Civil War Era)
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ISBN 10: 0820375349 ISBN 13: 9780820375342
Editorial: University of Georgia Press, 2026

Sinopsis

Mercy in Disaster is about the forgotten nurse in America’s signature, iconic photograph of Civil War wounded: abolitionist Abby Hopper Gibbons. Hung in museums large and small, pictured in books, and found across the internet, rarely is what the New York Times called “one of the most remarkable women of this century” identified. More practitioner than pundit, an organizer and social reformer for nearly six decades before the war, Gibbons spent the majority of America’s largest crisis at the front or in various hospitals. Mercy in Disaster is the compilation of Gibbons’s wartime letters and journals, which are a vivid window on the emerging role of women, medical care, the struggle for freedom by African Americans, and Gibbons’s fascinating place in it all. An educated Quaker, Gibbons chronicles her efforts to overcome, avoid, or accommodate the obstacles confronting the women of her time. She responded to the suffering of war, witnessed medical care in evolution, and everywhere abetted the end of chattel slavery through aid and advocacy.

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ANGELA G. SCHEAR is the first descendant of Abby Gibbons to become a nurse. She was a pediatric ICU nurse for seven years and currently serves as an emergency department nurse. She enjoys following her ancestor’s footsteps in disaster relief, deploying multiple times beginning with a stint in Haiti in 2010, followed by stints in Israel, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Armenia, three COVID field hospitals with Samaritan’s Purse, and Ukraine in April 2022. Schear is a guest speaker for her local historical society and lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Editorial
University of Georgia Press
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0820375349
ISBN 13 
9780820375342
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
320
Editor
Schear Angela G.
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