Ellen N. La Motte - (Nursing History and Humanities) by Lea Williams (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist</i>, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It integrates original unexamined sources such as diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and publishing contracts along with primary sources--letters, newspaper articles, health department reports, and public records--with an examination of her prolific published writings, about topics as diverse as tuberculosis nursing, women's suffrage, nursing during the Great War, and the opium trade. It considers of how she developed as a nurse, writer, and activist once she entered the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses in 1898 and grew into a potent force in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Gaining experience speaking and writing on behalf of controversial causes, La Motte put her talents to use on behalf of the fight for the vote for women, nursing during World War I and the anti-opium campaign.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This biography of Ellen N. La Motte traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky in 1873, to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It considers how she developed as a nurse, writer, and activist after she entered the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses in 1898, and grew into a potent force in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Gaining experience speaking and writing on behalf of controversial causes, La Motte put her talents to use on behalf of the fight for the vote for women before the outbreak of the First World War, and then turned her attention to finding a way to lend her skills as a nurse to the French Army on the Western Front. After the war, she travelled in Asia and became invested in the world-wide anti-opium campaign. This volume considers original unexamined sources such as diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and publishing contracts alongside primary sources such as letters, newspaper articles, health department reports, and public records, and integrates them with an examination of her prolific published writings, seven books, and dozens of articles about topics as diverse as tuberculosis nursing, women's suffrage, nursing during the Great War, and the opium trade. The book brings these sources and topics together to provide a biography of La Motte while discussing her personal and professional development within the context of the cultural and social forces at work that influenced the trajectory of her life. Students of public health nursing, twentieth-century social reform movements, suffrage, the First World War, and colonialism and the anti-opium crusade will find much of interest in the story of La Motte's life and work.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lea M. Williams is Professor in the Department of English and Communications at Norwich University, USA
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