When “Mercy Street” began filming in Richmond, Va. She reads them carefully, offering comments about historical accuracy of medical interactions, even to the point of flagging language that 19th-century nurses and doctors would not have used. Scripts for each episode are sent to Schultz for review. It was this body of work that led Wolfinger to contact Schultz in February 2014 to ask that she be a “Mercy Street” consultant. Author of “This Birth Place of Souls,” an annotated edition of one of the last existing nursing diaries from the Civil War, published in 2010.Ĭurrently she is engaged in two book projects: one on surgical culture in the Civil War (“Lead, Blood, and Ink”) and another titled “A Match Made in Hospital,” concerning the correspondence of a female hospital worker from Pennsylvania who fell in love with a surgeon in the Army of the Potomac.Author of “Women at the Front,” a study of gender and relief work in American Civil War military hospitals that was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize in 2005.Co-editor of “Nursing History and Humanities,” a book series published at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.Schultz has spent nearly 30 years revealing the world of Civil War hospitals and medicine. The series takes place in a luxury hotel that’s been turned into a Union hospital in Alexandria, Va. The first episode of “Mercy Street,” the first PBS original drama in more than 10 years, aired Jan. Daily News, “We just thought, ‘Let’s do something set in the Civil War from the vantage point of these doctors and volunteer nurses.’ Because it’s never been done. That was the same goal set by “Mercy Street” producer Lisa Wolfinger, who told the L.A. “It seemed a wonderful way to bring the history of Civil War hospitals and medicine to a wider public.” “I did so, for about three seconds,” said Schultz, who teaches in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. INDIANAPOLIS - When Jane Schultz, professor of English and medical humanities and director of literature at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, was asked to be a historical consultant for “Mercy Street,” a PBS Civil War medical drama series, she said she would think about it.
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