Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War

by Kara Dixon Vuic

Book Overview

Winner, 2010 Lavinia L. Dock Award, American Association for the History of NursingAn American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year in History and Public Policy

"'I never got a chance to be a girl, ' Kate O'Hare Palmer lamented, thirty-four years after her tour as an army nurse in Vietnam. Although proud of having served, she felt that the war she never understood had robbed her of her innocence and forced her to grow up too quickly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421404443
• ISBN13: 9781421404448
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher