Bellafaire, Judith, 1954-

Women doctors in war /Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf. - first edition. - College Station : Texas A and M University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations - Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; no. 128 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Hen medics: women physicians in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War -- Necessity's handmaidens: the Army's women contract surgeons of World War I -- Finding a place in the sun: women Army doctors in World War II -- Join the Navy and see the world: women Navy doctors in World War II -- Out of place: women military doctors in Cold War America -- On the edge of equality: contemporary women military physicians -- Epilogue.



9781603445726




Women physicians--History.--United States
Women and war--History.--United States
Women physicians.
Medicine, Military.


Electronic Books.

UB418 / .W664 2009