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Glassford, Sarah Carlene, 1978-
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Canadian Red Cross Society -- History.
Voluntary health agencies -- Canada -- History.
Humanitarian assistance, Canadian -- History.
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Glassford, Sarah Carlene, 1978-
Canadian Red Cross Society -- History.
Voluntary health agencies -- Canada -- History.
Humanitarian assistance, Canadian -- History.
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Mobilizing mercy : a history of the Canadian Red Cross / Sarah Glassford.
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Glassford, Sarah Carlene, 1978-
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
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361
.7634
G549m
Subjects
Canadian Red Cross Society -- History.
Voluntary health agencies -- Canada -- History.
Humanitarian assistance, Canadian -- History.
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McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 45.
ISBN:
9780773547759 (hc.)
Description:
xix, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-369) and index.
Contents:
Men, medicine, and militia, 1885-1896 -- To South Africa and back, 1896-1914 -- A society transformed by war, 1914-1918 -- The battlefields of peace, 1919-1939 -- Golden age or troubled times? 1939-1945 -- Mid-century modern Red Cross, 1946-1970.
Summary:
For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. Sarah Glassford reveals how the European-born Red Cross movement came to Canada and took root, and why it flourished. From its origins in battlefield medicine to the creation of Canada's first nationwide free blood transfusion service during the Cold War, Mobilizing Mercy charts crucial organizational changes, the influence of key leaders, and the impact of social, cultural, political, economic, and international trends over time. Glassford shows that the key to the Red Cross's longevity lies in its ability to reinvent itself by tapping into the concerns and ambitions of diverse groups including militia doctors, government officials, middle-class women, and schoolchildren. Through periods of war and peace, the Canadian Red Cross pioneered new services and filled gaps in government aid to become a ubiquitous agency on the wartime home front, a major domestic public health organization, and a respected provider of international humanitarian aid. Opening a window onto the shifting relationship between voluntary organizations and the state, Mobilizing Mercy is a compelling portrait of a major humanitarian organization, its people, and its ever-evolving place in Canadian society.
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