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Reveille and Redemption can be read at many different levels. At one level, it's historical fiction. Although all characters in the book are fictitious, and their names metaphorical, Reveille and Redemption nevertheless accurately portrays obstetrical care in American hospitals during the latter part of an era spanning the years from the 1940s through the 1960s, characterized in the novel as the dark age of hospital obstetrics. Reveille and Redemption is also a sociological novel about hospital bureaucracies of the era, elucidating the untoward effects of bureaucratic organization and mentality on patient care. And the novel is feminist in the sense that it analyzes the uses and abuses of women during the dark age. At its most profound level, Reveille and Redemption is a theological novel about original sin and the banality of evil. During the dark age, through neglect and sometimes even abuse, women giving birth were routinely traumatized both mentally and physically. To make matters worse, professional nurses who were supposed to protect them were effectively neutralized as competent guardians of laboring women through on-going verbal and emotional abuse by medical staff and others-abuse that sometimes escalated into violence.
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R Bruce Deroo
reviewed Reveille And Redemption: Tales Of An Army Nurse on January 23, 2011
Reveille And Redemption: Tales Of An Army Nurse
Fascinating!
A fascinating account of this "acceptable taboo" subject - namely, the medical dissection of the human body by medical students. This one is up close and personal, because the author is one of the students. She takes us through the entire semester - or more precisely the spiritual journey she undergoes. We follow Ms. Montross through her development - both human and medical. She is obviously anguished by what she has to do in the medical lab - and her reactions and exposé give the book great beauty. We can feel her growth, she makes incredible connections between her lab work and internship with live patients. She realizes that the extreme awkwardness and cutting to exposure ALL parts of the human body is also a preparation for dealing with real people who may be terminally ill, have grotesque disfigurations, etc...
Like all medical students she must learn to balance feelings and discomfort when listening to patients - but not at the loss of giving just a cold clinical diagnosis. We also get a sense of the mental and physical stress that these students undergo - not all of them make it through the entire term. They are in their own special club - and those outside the club cannot properly relate to them. Ms. Montross gives us wonderful insights into this club.
Another aspect of the book I liked was its lack of criticisms. This is not a book that rails against the medical profession and those in it. It treats all from the body undergoing dissection to the students, doctors and patients with a great deal of humanism and respect.
She also gives a history of anatomical dissection and how bodies were acquired (more often stolen) in past eras. Given the subject this is not easy reading - it is necessarily morbid. I did not have nightmares, but the words in the book remain with you - as does any good book.
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