Die konfessionelle Kriegskrankenpflege im 19. Jahrhundert (Medizin, Gesellschaft Und Geschichte - Beihefte)

English Description: The problem providing medical care to wounded and sick soldiers has occupied humanity for as long as the existence of war itself. Up until the nineteenth century, however, the underdeveloped military medical corps of European armies was thoroughly unfit to meet its task- thus developed voluntary military medical care. Annett Büttner shows in this book that that the development of the voluntary nursing effort cannot be reduced to internationally known protagonists like Henry Durant and the International Red Cross. The focus of this work is the military nursing care during the so-called Reichseinigungskriegen, or the Wars of German Unification, in the years 1864 to 1870/71. Because the Red Cross was first developed in this period, the burden of the work was borne by Evangelical deacons as well as Catholic nuns. They were the first civilian nurses in wartime. On the basis of letters and reports, the intentions and strategies are pursued and the daily life of caregiving in the military hospitals is reconstructed. A view on the development of the voluntary military care up to World War I rounds out this account.