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Endell Street

- The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
Af: Wendy Moore Engelsk Paperback

Endell Street

- The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
Af: Wendy Moore Engelsk Paperback
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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition.

Yet their medical and organisational skills were so impressive that in 1915 Flora and Louisa were asked by the War Ministry to return to London and establish a new military hospital in a vast and derelict old workhouse in Covent Garden''s Endell Street. That they did, creating a 573-bed hospital staffed from top to bottom by female surgeons, doctors and nurses, and developing entirely new techniques to deal with the horrific mortar and gas injuries suffered by British soldiers. Receiving 26,000 wounded men over the next four years, Flora and Louisa created such a caring atmosphere that soldiers begged to be sent to Endell Street. And then, following the end of the war and the Spanish Flu outbreak, the hospital was closed and Flora, Louisa and their staff were once again sidelined in the medical profession.

The story of Endell Street provides both a keyhole view into the horrors and thrills of wartime London and a long-overdue tribute to the brilliance and bravery of an extraordinary group of women.

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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition.

Yet their medical and organisational skills were so impressive that in 1915 Flora and Louisa were asked by the War Ministry to return to London and establish a new military hospital in a vast and derelict old workhouse in Covent Garden''s Endell Street. That they did, creating a 573-bed hospital staffed from top to bottom by female surgeons, doctors and nurses, and developing entirely new techniques to deal with the horrific mortar and gas injuries suffered by British soldiers. Receiving 26,000 wounded men over the next four years, Flora and Louisa created such a caring atmosphere that soldiers begged to be sent to Endell Street. And then, following the end of the war and the Spanish Flu outbreak, the hospital was closed and Flora, Louisa and their staff were once again sidelined in the medical profession.

The story of Endell Street provides both a keyhole view into the horrors and thrills of wartime London and a long-overdue tribute to the brilliance and bravery of an extraordinary group of women.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9781786495853
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1786495856
Kategori: Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger
Udg. Dato: 19 aug 2021
Længde: 33mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato: 19 aug 2021
Forfatter(e): Wendy Moore
Forfatter(e) Wendy Moore

Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger

ISBN-13 9781786495853

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 384

Udgave

Længde 33mm

Bredde 198mm

Højde 128mm

Udg. Dato 19 aug 2021

Oplagsdato 19 aug 2021

Forlag Atlantic Books