Abstract

The purposes of this research were to create and historicize a phenomenological description of the lived experience of nurse-caring by the culture of white Northern women during the American Civil War. Primary sources included: unpublished and published Civil War letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, reminiscences, narratives and records from 1861 through 1911. The phenomenological description was created using van Manen's (1990) approach for hermeneutic phenomenology and Drew's (2001) method for examining the researcher's pre-understanding of a phenomenon. The phenomenological description was historicized using Leininger's (1995) Sunrise Model as a framework.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3127580; ProQuest document ID: 305208795. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Mary Ann Urban Cordeau, PhD, RN, Nurse Historian, Associate Professor Emeritus

Sigma Membership

Mu

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Phenomenology

Research Approach

Other

Keywords:

American Civil War, Nursing Care, Lived Experiences, Civil War Nurses, White Northern Women

Advisor

Eleanor K. Herrmann

Second Advisor

Carol A. Daisy

Third Advisor

Nancy Drew

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Connecticut

Degree Year

2004

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2022-01-31

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