"This book is a tremendously useful survey, and Stepansky's reverence for nursing comes through in his frequently eloquent style.Stepansky makes some wonderful connections between and among nurses.Stepansky also supplies some fascinating information about the post-war lives of many of these nurses whom he quotes.highly recommended"-- The Watermark ; "Stepansky compares the medical procedures on the Western Front with those of earlier wars, giving special attention to new technologies that became essential for modern nursing."-- Princeton Alumni Weekly ; " Easing Pain on the Western Front provides an important contribution to scholarship on nurses and war. Moving beyond exploration of why nurses might serve in the military during wartime, Stepansky provides an historically informed examination of nurses' actual wartime practices. In the case of WWI, these practices changed the experience of wounded soldiers, in no small measure through nurses' skilled use of the cutting-edge technologies of the time.technologies that contributed to the transformation of American nursing in the decades following the Great War.

"--Patricia D'Antonio, Ph.D., RN, Carol E. Ware Professor in Mental Health Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; "Paul Stepansky's Easing Pain on the Western Front provides unique insight into the experience of American and Canadian nurses on the Western Front. In the process, he expertly charts the evolution of nursing care on the battlefields of World War I, recording treatment advances that would benefit the nurses of World War II along with civilian nurses who would find their place within the American healthcare system. It is the gripping story of nurses who advanced their profession despite the emotional trauma and physical burdens of the work."--COL. (ret.

) Richard M. Prior, DNP, FNP-BC, former Army Nurse Corps Historian.