Don't Mean Nothing
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American military history
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battlefield caregiving challenges
battlefield hospital memoirs
battlefield human experience
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civilian and military casualties
civilian-military medical interface
combat hospital narratives
conflict-zone nursing practices
coping strategies in extreme conditions
coping with loss in combat
cross-cultural medical care
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ethics and empathy in war
female narratives from combat zones
female soldier perspectives
female Vietnam War nurses
frontline care narratives
frontline nursing accounts
gendered war experiences
historical nursing perspectives
humanistic perspectives on war
life of nurses in war
medical ethics under fire
medical staff memoirs
military hospital diaries
military medical personnel
military service and mental health
nurses' lived experiences in combat
nursing under combat conditions
nursing under duress
personal accounts of Vietnam
personal storytelling from Vietnam
post-traumatic reflections
psychological impact of war
survival and moral responsibility
trauma coping mechanisms
Vietnam conflict stories
Vietnam War oral histories
war and psychological endurance
war-induced emotional resilience
wartime caregiving experiences
wartime ethical dilemmas
wartime female agency
wartime gender dynamics
wartime heroism by women
wartime stress and addiction
wartime trauma and resilience
warzone survival strategies
women and wartime morality
women in armed conflicts
women in military service
Product details
- ISBN 9781558494428
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 137 x 205mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2004
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse; In this powerful story collection - the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam - Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective. All the nurses who served there had a common bond: to attend to the wounded. While men were sent to protect America's interests at any cost, nurses were trained to save the lives of anyone - soldier or citizen, ally or enemy - who was brought through the hospital doors. It was an important distinction in a place where killing was sometimes the only objective. And since they were so vastly outnumbered, women inevitably became objects of both reverence and sexual desire. For American nurses in Vietnam, and the men among whom they worked and lived, a common defense against the steady onslaught of dead and dying, wounded and maimed, was a feigned indifference - the irony of the powerless. With the assistance of alcohol, drugs, and casual sex, ""Don't mean nothing"" became their mantra, a means of coping with the other war - the war against total mental breakdown. Each or these tales offers new and profound insight into the ways the war in Vietnam forever
Susan O'Neill served as an Army nurse in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970. Don't Mean Nothing is her first book, written nearly thirty years after the experiences it depicts.
