Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice

World War I fundamentally reformed nursing practices, preempting the modern era of nursing. In Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice (McFarland & Co.), Paul E. Stepansky *73 compares American nursing techniques to those practiced by nurses from other countries in other wars to provide insight into the medical technologies developed during the Great War.