Explore 19 images of World War II nurses, capturing the courage, compassion, and daily realities of wartime medical workers.

Nurse-Midwives Begin to Offer Care to Middle-Class Women Changes in women's self-concept during World War II, after the war, and throughout the postwar baby boom preceded nurse-midwifery's expansion ...

When she heard I was preparing to start my nurse training, my 85-year-old neighbour, Mrs Marjorie Trousdale, offered me some insights into her own experiences as a student nurse in the late 1940s. I ...

This article reviews the origins of nurse-midwifery in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century and explores professional expansion between 1940 and 1950. Nurse-midwifery emerged ...