Adela Vasquez Schiaffino: A nurse in the Mexican Revolution
Keywords:
Nursing, History, Mexico, Journalism, RevolutionAbstract
Adela Vásquez Schiaffino was a Mexican nurse and reporter in 1911, during the Mexican Revolution. A nurse who graduated from the class of 1902, a writer for the Mexico City newspaper El Diario, she volunteered as a nurse in El Paso, Texas, caring for the wounded revolutionaries and civilians from Mexico. Her reporting of her nursing of the wounded is immediate, heart-felt, and alive. A pioneer in Mexican nursing and journalism, one hundred years later, her writing is still an inspiration and a dramatic record of the human cost of the Revolution.
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