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by Kathi Jackson, 211 pp, with illus, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-0832-7627-3, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2000, paperback edition 2006.

JAMA. 2006;296:1663.

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Unlike most women in past wars, nurses worked in the midst of fighting and experienced firsthand the toll of human destruction. In They Called Them Angels Kathi Jackson makes an important contribution to standard military history by giving the military nurses' perspective. Drawing on a wealth of personal interviews, memoirs, and magazine articles, Jackson vividly captures the experiences of military nurses during World War II. These nurses' wartime tales of ingenuity, valor, skill, and compassion make this book highly readable for the amateur or professional historian of military nursing.

This book is additionally important because labor and medical historians have essentially ignored the work of nurses. As nurse historian Margarete Sandelowski has argued, " . . . nurses have typically appeared (if they have appeared at all) as no more than footnotes in the history of medicine."¹ Yet social history covering the work of nurses is inherently interesting because of nursing's proximity to humanity's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Brigid Lusk, RN, PhD, Reviewer
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb
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