Date of Award

Summer 1995

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Martha Brown

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47 P575

Abstract

The Civil War played a major role in the transformation of nursing from a domestic service to a genuine profession for women. Thousands of women moved into the public space of the battlefield to care for the sick and wounded, transferring their domestic skills to the administration of military hospitals and the gathering and distribution of sanitary supplies. The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by women such as Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, promoted the training of women as skilled nurses, Drawing on the techniques and experience of Florence Nightingale, American women elevated nursing, a previously domestic duty, into a specialized profession.

Memoirs and personal correspondence provide an insight into the lives of the remarkable women of the Sanitary Commission. Published works by many of these women as well as other authors reveal that the roles women played established a momentum for moving nursing into the public domain.

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DOI

10.25777/3s3h-ks25

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