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.