Sources on Nursing in Vietnam

One of my current favorite authors of SFF recently asked for some information about the experience of nurses during the period that the United States was most heavily involved in the Vietnam War (1964-1972). This is the working list of items that I suggested for her, broken down by type of source: journal articles, memoirs, biographies, books, and theses/dissertations. If you have suggestions for other high-quality sources, please let me know, and I'll update the list.

Books

Aggeles, Theodora B. Answering the Call: Nurses of Post 122. Philadelphia, Pa: Xlibris, 2007.

Bigler, Philip. Hostile Fire: The Life and Death of First Lieutenant Sharon Lane. Arlington, VA: Vandamere Press, 1996.

Deardorff, Barb. Another Kind of War Story: Army Nurses Look Back to Vietnam. Lebanon, PA: A. Thompson, 1993.

Freedman, Dan, and Jacqueline Rhoads. Nurses in Vietnam: The Forgotten Veterans. Austin, TX: Texas Monthly Press, 1987.

Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1999.

Heikkila, Kim. Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011.

Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966-1975. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

Norman, Elizabeth M. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Rushton, Patricia. Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans.

Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. An Interview with a Vietnam Nurse: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Author of The Healer's War. New York: Bantam, 1989.

Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. The Healer's War. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Smith, Winnie. American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines with an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: W. Morrow, 1992.

Stur, Heather Marie. Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Vuic, Kara Dixon. Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Walker, Keith. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1986.

Zeinert, Karen. The Valiant Women of the Vietnam War. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2000.

Memoirs

Bennett, Marilyn Faye. "Help! What Do I Do Now?": The Adventures of a Young Missionary Nurse in Vietnam. Nashville: Southern Pub. Association, 1976.

Devanter, Lynda Van, and Christopher Morgan. Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: Beaufort Books, 1983.

Hampton, Lynn. Ace Tail-gunner: Memoirs of a U.S. Army Combat Nurse in Vietnam. Canton, OH: Daring Pub. Group, 1992.

Hampton, Lynn. The Fighting Strength: Memoirs of a Combat Nurse in Vietnam. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1992.

Hovis, Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991.

Kautz, Barbara Hesselman. When I Die I'm Going to Heaven, 'cause I Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year as an Army Nurse in Vietnam. Portsmouth, NH: Piscataqua Press, 2013.

Klutz, Diane. Round Eyes: An American Nurse in Vietnam. Penn Laird, VA: Tri Star Books, 2012.

Walsh, Patricia L. River City: A Nurse's Year in Vietnam Memoir. Boulder, CO: Toa Press, 2009.

Watts, Anne. A Nurse's Story of Home and War. London: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams That Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam. Edmonton, Alta.: River Books, 1999.

Journal Articles

Mithers, Carol Lynn. "Missing in Action: Women Warriors in Vietnam."Cultural Critique, no. 3 (1986): 79. doi:10.2307/1354166.

Norman, Elizabeth M. "After the Casualties." Nursing Research 41, no. 2 (1992). doi:10.1097/00006199-199203000-00010.

Paul, Elizabeth A. "Wounded Healers: A Summary of the Vietnam Nurse Veteran Project." Military Medicine 150, no. 11 (November 1986): 571-76.

Scannell-Desch, E. A., and M. Anderson. "Hardships and Personal Strategies of Vietnam War Nurses." Western Journal of Nursing Research 22, no. 5 (2000): 526-50. doi:10.1177/01939450022044584.

Scannell-Desch, E. "The Culture of War: A Study of Women Military Nurses in Vietnam." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 11, no. 2 (2000): 87-95. doi:10.1177/104365960001100202.

Theses/Dissertations

Barton, Julie Anne. Foundations of Animosity and Disillusionment : Recruitment, Training, and Deployment Practices of the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. PhD diss., Baylor University, 1996.

Moore, Constance J. Oral History Reflections of Army Nurse Vietnam Veterans : Managing the Demanding Experience of War. Master's thesis, San Jose State University, 1992.

Norman, Elizabeth. Nurses in War : A Study of Female Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam during the War Years 1965-1973. PhD diss., New York University, 1986.

Reckart, Nanette J. "What I Did in the War, Mother! : A Study of the Women in the American Red Cross at the 249th General Hospital (1965-1971) during the Vietnam Conflict." Master's thesis, Keene State College, 1990.

Scannell-Desch, Elizabeth, Ph.D. "The Lived Experience of Women Military Nurses in Vietnam during the Vietnam War." PhD diss., Georgia State University, 1992.

Sifling, Doris E. "Vietnam: Navy Nurses' Points of View : The Experiences of the Navy Nurses on the First Cruise of the USS Sanctuary in Vietnam." PhD diss., St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, 1987.

Tanner, Janet D. Nurses in Fatigues : The Army Nurse Corps and the Vietnam War. Master's thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2011.

Australian Nurses

Biedermann, Narelle. Tears on My Pillow: Australian Nurses in Vietnam. Milsons Point, NSW: Random House Australia, 2004.

Biedermann, Narelle, Kim Usher, Ann Williams, and Barbara Hayes. "The Wartime Experience of Australian Army Nurses in Vietnam, 1967-1971." J Adv Nurs Journal of Advanced Nursing 35, no. 4 (2001): 543-49. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01870.x.

Hemmings, Lynn. "Vietnam Memories: Australian Army Nurses, the Vietnam War, and Oral History." Nurs Inq Nursing Inquiry 3, no. 3 (1996): 138-45. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1800.1996.tb00028.x.

McKay, Gary, and Elizabeth Stewart. With Healing Hands: The Untold Story of the Australian Civilian Surgical Teams in Vietnam. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2009.

MacLeod, Joan B. F., and Pam Barlow. The Longest Mile: A Nurse in the Vietnam War, 1968-69: Letters from Nursing Sister Joan B.F. MacLeod Who Served in Vietnam as a Member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps. Arcadia, Qld.: P. Barlow, 2006.

French Nurses

Galard, Geneviève De. The Angel of Dien Bien Phu: The Sole French Woman at the Decisive Battle in Vietnam. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010.