Women and Medical Care
in the First World War
28 January 2016
Stephens House
Women provided most of the nursing care during the first world war – in all the theatres of war. They worked in temporary hospitals, casualty clearing stations, on hospital barges, in trains and on ships, providing care that challenged their skills, often in dangerous conditions. We met them, as well as some feisty women doctors, in Dr Cohen’s illustrated talk.
Susan Cohen graduated from Middlesex University as a mature student in 1992, and was awarded her doctorate from the University of Southampton in 2005. She works as an independent historian, and has a special interest in British social history. Amongst her other publications are illustrated histories of the Women’s Institute, the Scouts, the District Nurse and the Salvation Army.
Copies of her book Medical Services in the First World War were available at the talk, at a price of £5 instead of £6.99.